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  • There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

    Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”
  • Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

    Lonely   Fun   Loneliness  
  • Every cell is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue.

  • The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

  • So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.

    Girl   Sarcastic   School  
  • My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before.

    Coffee   Night   Thinking  
  • From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.

    Heart   Anxiety   Desire  
  • Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

    Hero   Agency   Guy  
  • Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

    John Ray (1737). “A compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages”, p.59
  • Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

    Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.75, A&C Black
  • A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

    Badass   Real   Book  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.816, Simon and Schuster
  • There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin' loudly goin' on about "oh the baby's lovely." They said it's got, er, lovely big eyes, er, really big hands and feet. Now that doesn't sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like sayin' it sounds like a frog. But I thought I don't know her, there's only so much you can say to a stranger. I don't know what kept me from sayin' it.

    Baby   Nice   Eye  
    "The Podfather Trilogy", Episode 1: Halloween, 2006.
  • [Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

    Broken   Listening   Hook  
  • A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.

    Taken   Years   Sides  
    Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.81, Canongate Books
  • Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

    Know How   Knows   Ifs  
  • A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

  • Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

  • Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

    People   Magic   Way  
    C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

    Cells   Body   Your Body  
    Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.25, Bantam
  • Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.

    "Oliver Stone Tells European Audience on Fourth of July 'The World is in Danger With Our Tyranny'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.
  • It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

    Home   People   Speech  
    "Ask the President! Some of Putin’s Very Best Hotline Answers". Answer during the "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin", sputniknews.com. April 15, 2015.
  • The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

  • Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but... Please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

    Hurt   Cutting   Dark  
  • Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics
  • There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

  • Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.

    Brain   Unlimited   Teach  
  • It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

    Lonely   Passion   Joy  
    "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.
  • FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

  • We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

    War   Cold   Cold War  
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