Earplug Quotes

#1. I'd never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.

Jonathan Lethem

#2. Ida Belle took a pair and popped them in her ears. "She's right," she yelled. "That siren is horribly loud. Sounds like a dinosaur-sized cat wailing." I stuck one earplug in and nodded. I already needed them if Ida Belle was going to keep yelling.

Jana Deleon

#3. The Army's always had a special place in my heart.

John M. McHugh

#4. Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Frederick Buechner

#5. Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

P.D. James

#6. Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch.

Abraham Verghese

#7. We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#8. The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

Sebastian Faulks

#9. Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

Robert Bridges

#10. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Pablo Picasso