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"The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!"
"Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment."
"Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town"
"I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears."
"But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know."
"When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it."
"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear."
"Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way."
"An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils"."
"The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk."
"I spoke to ears that refused to hear."
"What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long."
"Listen . Keep silent . You are not gods mouthpiece. Try to be an ear."
"I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak."
"Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?"
"The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears."
"More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry"
"She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one."
"Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched."
"A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here."
