There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. — Thornton Wilder
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans
Be silent in a group of people
See what they reveal to you. — Yoko Ono
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. — Isocrates
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. — Horace
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky
Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth. — American Proverbs
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. — Sigmund Freud
They discovered that people who paid the most attention — good listeners — could actually anticipate what the speaker was about to say before he said it. — Chris Voss
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good listener is usually thinking about something else. — Kin Hubbard
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. — Jared Sparks
Short Eavesdropping Quotes
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. — John Ray
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver
We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable. — Vladimir Putin
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught. — Daniel Handler
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. — Paul Fleischman
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs. — Maryrose Wood
Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity. — Franny Billingsley
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. — C. S. Lewis
Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts. — Deepak Chopra
Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen. — Jill Shalvis
Quotable Quotes
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. — Ray Liotta
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. — Louis Menand
What we got here is a failure to communicate. — Paul Newman
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. — Tom Stoppard
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) — Albert Einstein
If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable. — Roger Ailes
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. — Robertson Davies
It's better to be quotable than to be honest. — Tom Stoppard
[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature. — Gordon S. Wood
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. — Louis Menand
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
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. — Vladimir Putin
I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it. — Saul Williams
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders. — Jan Koum
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God. — R. C. Sproul
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. — Marsha Norman
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. — Ben Marcus
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. — Tom Papa
Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'. — Bram Cohen
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? — Bill Moyers
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. — Don Roff
I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth. — Jodi Picoult
Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. — Tom Waits
Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that. — Jan Schakowsky
From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire. — Deepak Chopra
Tigerkit! Have you been eavesdropping again?" Tawnypelt glared at her dark tabby kit, but it was easy to see the fondness in her eyes. — Erin Hunter
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb. — Julia Cameron
If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. — Robert Breault
You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you. — J. K. Rowling
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book. — Janet Evanovich
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant? — Pete du Pont
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported. — Margaret Carlson
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping. — Michael Hutchence
If you're a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and increased government power so dramatically that he claims the right to eavesdrop on your conversations without a warrant. — Paul Begala
I think the best conversation to have been able to eavesdrop on was the one the minute after it was called that Trump would be the next president of the Unites States. Because by all indications, it does not seem anybody thought they were going to win. That is the moment I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. Or, like, in the microwave, whatever. — Alyssa Mastromonaco
We've become the most eavesdropped, monitored, spied on, photographed population in human history, dwarfing anything that was done by the Stasi state and East Germany. And that's all been - you know, these are all the sacrifices that we supposedly have to make to make ourselves safe. — Chris Hedges
I'd love to be able to be invisible, because I like to eavesdrop. — Cheyenne Jackson
That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Literature is eavesdropping. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. — Arthur L. Herman
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). — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems. — Jonathan Zittrain
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