My Ears Are Burning Quotes

#1. ...we're not even really hiking,
more like meandering in cinematic light.

Kristen Henderson

#2. The hobbits began to feel very hot. There were armies of flies of all kinds buzzing round their ears, and the afternoon sun was burning on their backs.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. I'm sorry, anal sex," Beavers continued, embarrassed by her slip of the tongue.

Dale Carpenter

#4. They say if your ears are burning then someone is talking about you. Is that true? Because I have a question about what it means if it's a different body part.

Jessica Park

#5. I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.

Graham Elliot

#6. Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Kochiyama

#7. To get squares you have to give up squares.

Bobby Fischer

#8. Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

Mary, Queen Of Scots

#9. Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

Keeley Hawes

#10. If you don't dare to think you might, you won't.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

Kate Smith

#12. And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

Adrian R. Lewis

#14. Hunched forward, feeling his ears burning, his hands shaking. Tried to concentrate. Found his eyes flickering over sentences and phrases, retaining nothing. [Charles Meredith]

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#15. We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.

C. G. Jung

#16. But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don't want to live in that world.

Katherine Boo