26 quotes found
“Imagine you are tied to a chair with your hands tightly bound behind you, preventing you from covering your ears. Before you is a giant chalkboard. A woman enters the room. Her fingernails are long...”
“What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.”
“Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don't allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It's the spirit of the mess...”
“If I close my eyes, plug my ears, and hold my tongue, all of this will cease to exist. I can pretend it never happened. No one will blame me if I choose to shove these memories into the back of my ...”
“Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.”
“There is more to hear in what is not said.”
“so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions”
“Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and gr...”
“Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing whats going on, our ears dont have lids that can instinctively close against the words...”
“...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear I speak quietly I sob I whisper...”
“A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air...”
“What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?”
“He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.”
“I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal ...”
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”
“None so deaf as those that will not hear.”
“Little pitchers have wide ears.”
“Went in at the one ear and out at the other.”
“He that hath ears to hear let him hear.”
“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”
