Overheard Quotes

47 quotes by 44 authors

Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having… — Sheridan Morley
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought… — George Orwell
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined.… — Vance Packard
We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I… — Ellen DeGeneres
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year… — Gene Kelly
Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault
I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the… — Frances Trollope
For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in… — Scott Bedbury
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else? — William S. Burroughs
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was,… — John Lanchester
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood… — Ann Beattie
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close… — David Leavitt
I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me,… — Pauley Perrette
As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was… — Matt Gonzalez
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories… — Bill Geist
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. — Rita Dove
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that… — Jonathan Safran Foer
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller

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