If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.
I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.
I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this. " He pulls me against him and runs his hand over my hair, tucking it behind my ear. His fingers trail down my neck and over my shoulder, and he says, "But you will do it. It doesn't matter if you believe you can or not. You will, because that's who you are.
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind