“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.” DoeEyeFacesHouseDoorsOne DayEarsMeetingsSensesIndifferentThrustPietyPuritan Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.” MenBelieveStillsDreamExistenceMoralWiseMoralityOne DayEarsWake UpNotesNobleSignificanceSpheres Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.” YearsLittlesSinOne DayBeatsEarsCleanHolidayFortyRetailAbsolution Author:Jon Stewart
“And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know, in your apartment and suddenly you go, whoa, what are they playing in there? And you run to the wall, but it's finished - but the song's finished. You only heard enough of it just the pique your interest. And you never know when they're going to play it again, of course, like a normal radio station.” KnowsEnoughPlayRunningSongCoursesInterestHeardWallOne DayNormalProgramEarsRadioFinishedTunesStationsApartmentWashingRadio StationsPique Author:Nick Lowe
“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.” YearsSaidI CanFacesCoursesNamesBehindsHeardMonthsColdTerribleOne DayStandingEarsBluePrisonLipsTerrorSpokesAffectedSeventeenNumbnessQueuesLeningrad Author:Anna Akhmatova
“Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood.” EyeBehindsOne DayEarsBehind YouWarrior CatsTigerstar Book:Warriors #4: Rising Storm Source: Warriors #4: Rising Storm