I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up. Votes: 2
Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring. Votes: 2
My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring. Votes: 2
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. Votes: 2
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works. Votes: 2
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring. Votes: 2
I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' had the left earring. So I started with the left earring, and then two years later, I got the other one pierced. Votes: 2
I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace. Votes: 2
Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young. Votes: 0
Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It's a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts. Votes: 0
Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove. Votes: 0
His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid heâd tell me Ivy had it. Votes: 0
When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring
My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. But really I think a man with an earring is better prepared for marriage. I mean, he's already experienced pain and bought jewelry.
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things"a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring"with immense, even startling power.