Overheard Quotes
47 Overheard quotes by 44 unique authors
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You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except…
— George Orwell
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I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of…
— Anne Lamott
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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation…
— Anne Lamott
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little…
— Barbara Pym
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Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a…
— Karen Marie Moning
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
— Alexandre Dumas
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What is this Chocho business?' Will muttered to himself. But his friends overheard the comment. 'It's a term of great respect,' they chorused, and he…
— John Flanagan
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Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and…
— Paul Celan
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History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
— Shirley Booth
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A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.
— Paul Rand
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You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.
— Joan Didion
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I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I overheard a girl talking to he BF,initially I thought she was talking to God,coz the things she asked for the only man you are…
— Lekoma Precious Napo
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I overheard three women at a bar talking one night as I was putting on my jacket to go home lamenting What happend to all…
— KM II
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I overheard your girls and this is what they said...
— Big Time Rush
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One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed,…
— Nate
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Overheard. 'Ooh thass that guy from Herald and Gerald go to sumthin sumthin.'
— Kal Penn
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I overheard the man whisper, I am a lover, not a fighter and I thought to myself, I, am in fact, both. For what is…
— Tyler Knott Gregson
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It is better to be overheard than under-heard. Always state your point and be brave and bodacious.
— Joseph Farmer
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I love helping people getting what they want. Today I overheard a girl saying I'd die for spicy mc burger so I killed her. Happy…
— Nikhil Saluja
Who Wrote These Overheard Quotes
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