Ears Quotes

“Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“i was music
but you had your ears cut off”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Some don’t even watch art with their eyes nor with their mind, but with their ears, ever since they judge art by the sound of money. (
“Money rocking and rolling”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“In the turbulent art arena they all pitch in and do their dubious and mercantile part in the rocambolesque saga of the art since so many judge art with their ears and the sound of the money. (“When is art?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.”
― Lucca Kaldahl

“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

“There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is his ears. And as you sleep, your heart and soul rest naked before him. He can drink from the rivers of your thoughts, and even feel the wetness of your tears.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Dreamers of the Day

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I pick up Dylan. He certainly takes after his father: about three-quarters of his body weight seems to be head, and three-quarters of that is ears.”
― Ken Jennings, Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

“There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."
Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, carefully, but nothing left me with the impression that my ears had died. The wine was rapidly circulating through my system.
"I do believe that my ears aren't dying properly, " I said, disappointed.
She shook her head. "That's okay. If your ears don't need to die, there's nothing wrong with them not dying.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“The ears are the last feature to age.”
― Malcolm de Chazal

“As a singer, she's in the music industry. As a duck farmer, I’m in the noise business. The product I pulse through the air invisibly is better for your ears.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“ she has big ears like a monkey , she can probably hear really good!”
― Charise Mericle Harper

“If you string gem-like words together, you have a Poetry Necklace. I’m now selling decorative I Love Yous for just under $19.96 ($19.95, to be precise). They taste great in your mouth like duck soup in your ears.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“I really do try to listen to the grown-ups, but every now and then my ears misbehave.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“U2 makes music for guys who have ears and can hear. But U2 makes concert imagery for guys who need visual stimulation to help push kidney stones through their urethras.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Music is a way to time travel. Most people like to go back to the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, but have you considered visiting the year 4321 through your ears?”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“Those hidden ideas between your ears could flow 'NEW GENIUS" throughout your year!”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Rahim is a little tricky, but I think of him as Birdman, because he has really big ears that could easily expand to wings if he gets bitten by a radioactive canary. Crazy, I know, but in comics, that kind of thing happens all the time. Anyway, I can always switch him to Sleeping Beauty. He’s not that beautiful, but he is that sleeping”
― Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

“He smells with his thumb and eats with his rear; you wouldn’t want to know what he does with his ear.”
― GLEN NESBITT, Joe the Alien

“Broke ears hear the silenced voices.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Then, in 1738, Robert Jenkins, a British merchant captain, was summoned to appear in Parliament, where he reportedly claimed that a Spanish officer had stormed his brig in the Caribbean and, accusing him of smuggling sugar from Spain's colonies, cut off his left ear. Jenkins reputedly displayed his severed appendage, pickled in a jar, and pledged "my cause to my country." The incident further ignited the passions of Parliament and pamphleteers, leading people to cry for blood - an ear for an ear - and a good deal of booty as well. The conflict became known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“The whole world is a monument to our fidelity, because what is ours will never be found elsewhere without all the visions I have listed, symbols of the love that enslaves us. And if you go in search of a world without memories in order to forget, there is nothing that will block our eyes or our ears. Our skin is wide awake and covered with eyes, although others think that we only have two eyes, and ears, although others think we only have two ears. Certain key places in our bodies connect us to those aspects of spirituality, of sex, that cannot be confessed, like the palm of the woman's hand, the inside of her elbow, or the vulnerable flesh of his ear and the curve of his foot.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces

“If you have to take his word for it you are not listening with the right organ.”
― Sebastyne Alpha