Ear Burning Sayings

#1. Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

John Sununu

#3. Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses, which caught the minutest refraction or echo of a thought or feeling ... She heard a deeper vibration, a kind of composite echo, of all that the writer said, and did not say.

Willa Cather

#4. Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

George MacDonald

#5. We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

Simon Sinek

#6. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

#7. The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted by the beast in his father's place. He

Lynsay Sands

#8. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Isaac Newton

#9. Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Joseph Priestley

#10. You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.

John Cheever

#11. Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Carl Sagan

#12. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

John F. Kennedy