Overhear Quotes

32 quotes by 31 authors

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it… — Arthur C. Clarke
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should overhear what He… — Samuel Logan Brengle
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his… — Ernest Hemingway
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand! — Mark Twain
My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that… — Billy Gibbons
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into… — Jason Schwartzman
You donâ€™t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on… — Jennifer Chiaverini
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page… — Eudora Welty
In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but… — Richard Wurmbrand
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard… — Art Garfunkel
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk… — Harold Bloom
Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else. — Suze Orman
But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if… — Josh Radnor
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied,… — J. D. McClatchy
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. — Haim Ginott
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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