(326 quotes found)
“Walls have ears.”
Proverb
“Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.”
Emily Bronte
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
Sylvester Stallone
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
Horace
“There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.”
Frank Tyger
“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear”
Italo Calvino
“His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open”
Howard Hughes
“It's an ear job, not an eye job.”
Donald T. Regan
“Nor Eye in a letter, nor Hand in a purse, nor Ear in the secret of another”
Benjamin Franklin
“And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.”
Bible