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“I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.”

Long Directors Long Time Direct Ears Scripts Whispering Really Long

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.”

Thinking Long Whole Body Language Long Time Ears

Author:Maya Angelou

“Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Long Hard Reason Answers Opinion Heard Ears Faults Critics Patient Impression Mistaken Censure

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.”

Humans May Long Fall Week Ears

Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“I like my hair long because I have really big ears.”

Long Bigs Hair Ears

Author:Josh Groban

“Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.”

Men Long Eye Example Ears Tedious

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.”

Long Dream Girl Class Boys Teacher Baby Bed Pages Ears Lays Grades Counting Boy And Girl Eighth Grade

Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”

Writing Trying Long Action Lasts Given Memories Practice Ears Casts Pens Polish Paragraph Deposits Mould

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

“I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.”

Knows Writing Mind Wells Long Play Sound Audience Stage Perception Ears Devotion Playwriting

Author:Tennessee Williams

“Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.”

Looks Long Whole Facts Eye Together Sides Cities Brain Groups Arms Becoming Mouths All Things Ears Paris Sensitive Centre Comprehensive Classification Forerunners

Book:The Burial of the Rats

Source: The Burial of the Rats

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.”

“By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.”

Source: The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): Annabel Lee, Ligeia, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.”

Long Broken Honor Ears Tales Noses Ancestor Boast Monument Ancestry Descent Forged Broken Images

Book:The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary

Source: The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary

“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”

“No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!”

Heart May Long Has Beens Mother Voice Wise My Heart Ears Pursue Fancy Companion No Friends

Book:The letters of Mrs. Thrale

Source: The letters of Mrs. Thrale

“so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?”

Men Needs Should Believe Long Evil Ears Doctrine Vicious Clergy

Author:Anne Roe

“I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.”

Believe Littles Long Made Kids Guy Hate Fighting Levels Cities Fantasy Feet Crime New York Ears I Hate Hated New York City Bats Superhero Little Kid Gorillas Tights

Author:Stephen R. Bissette

“I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

Knows May Long Has Beens I Can War Hands Faces Fighting Sleep Know How Danger Ears Remains Soldier Civil War Nurse Compelled Nursing Never Fear

Author:Clara Barton

“The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.”

Long Eye Water Bird Garden Ears Plant Senses Gardening Texture Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Author:William Howard Adams

“Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.”

Long Age Dark Ears Forgotten Giants Forty Shade Flood Egypt Tombs Pyramids Repose Pharaohs Nile

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.”

Long Stills Strong Sound Heard Hatred Ears Contempt Filthy Dreary Repetitive Orcs

Book:The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.”

Ifs Long Causes Water Ears Distance Ships Tubes Extremity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.”

Ifs Want Persons Long Today Wanted Journey Advice Involved Ears Ancient Eras Guidance Expensive Greece Oracles Ancient Greece Busybodies Delphi

Author:Margo Kaufman

“Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”

“The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.”

Long Silence Solitude Ears Tongue Communion

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.”

Long Sound Ears Remains Strikes Uniforms

Book:On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

Source: On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

“My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.”

“As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.”

Long I Can Real Limits Music Is Ears

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

Knows Long Has Beens Book Reading Known Dog Ears Tea Reading Books Dirt Book Reading Bookstores Muffins Topography

Book:The Essays of Elia

Source: The Essays of Elia

“About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that ,but I've got a long way to go.”

Thinking Way Trying Mind Long Prayer Morning Four Week Ears I Have Learned Long Way Long Way To Go Rambling Morning Prayer Prayer Time

Author:Max Lucado

“As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.”

Long Eye Used Approach Ears Flight Used To Be Birthday

Author:Mike Wallace

“Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.”

Should Heart Long Doe Felt Prayer Praying Speech Ears Humble Loud Ministers Servant Throat Organs Weary Lungs Petitions Heart Felt

Author:Ellen G. White

“Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.”

Should Humans Long Doe Pain Energy Sound Space Music Cases Forever Cutting Fields Sweet Goes On Ears Notes Wave Patterns Barriers Cosmic Barrels Bounce

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”

Long Mouths Ears

Author:John Wayne

“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.”

Thinking Want Needs Long Ideas Shows Hands Spirit Girl Evil Blood Please Beats Angel Skins Ears Bones Flesh Demon Desperate Chests Zombie Craving Flesh And Blood Evil Spirits Skin And Bones

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Long Dream Together Night Numbers Design Painting Planets Ears Distance Abstract Spokes Seconds Mathematician

Book:One Way or Another: Stories

Source: One Way or Another: Stories

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.”

“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

Knows Way Want Firsts Looks Persons Long Ends Happens Remember Games Long Time Happenings Ears Sentences Things Happen Chains Bad Things Long Time Ago Bad Things Happen

Author:Jodi Picoult

“As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an ear…dipping down and ﬁnding the long waves that ﬂowed from the animal’s broad, strong chest. Not that any of that meant he was keeping the the animal, of course. It just felt nice, was all.”

Long Hands Bigs Courses Found Strong Felt Animal Nice Dog Ears Down And Wave Broads Chests Brotherhood Fur Big Heads

Book:Lover Avenged: Number 7 in series

Source: Lover Avenged: Number 7 in series

“Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.”

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.”

Long I Can Today Behinds Flower Gold Ears Exciting Absolutes Tiny Pearls Orange Wrists Petals Poisonous Necklaces Bangles

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.”

World Long Stills Would Be Eye Moving Left Millions Blood Tears Ears Abuse Army Pursuit Teeth Instant Beast Distraction Thread Anguish Vessel Me Alone Tin Before Death Blood Vessels Taciturn

Author:Frank O'Hara

“Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?" said Zacharias Smith. "Here's an idea," said Ron loudly, "why don't you shut your mouth?" "Well, we've all turned up to learn from him, and now he's telling us he can't really do any of it," he said. "That's not what he said," said Fred Weasley. "Would you like us to clean out your ears for you?" inquired George, pulling a long and lethal-looking metal instrument from inside one of the Zonko's bags. "Or any part of your body, really, we're not fussy where we stick this," said Fred.”

Trying Wells Long Said Ideas Body Stuff Mouths Ears Instruments Clean Sticks Your Body Bags Metals Pulling Weasley Weasels Fussy Fred Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.”

Want Feels Trying Heart Long Helping Earth Loses Ears Someday Feel Better

Book:Varieties of Disturbance: Stories

Source: Varieties of Disturbance: Stories

“I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. "That's what you wanted, isn't it?" It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. "Yes," she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. "That's what I wanted.”

Ifs Want Heart Long Made Said Would Be Eye Wanted Voice Answers Pieces Heard Brother Long Time Expectations Ears Wave Sand Hopeful Scream Salt Far Away Echoes Her Eyes Your Brother Spray Smashing

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!”

Long Said Soul Heard Worst Long Time Ears Offensive Lad

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did.”

Long Eye Father Forget Minutes Love You Ears Sorry Never Forget Forget You Father And Son Best Father I'm So Sorry

Author:Pittacus Lore