Against Eavesdropping Quotes

#1. I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that.

Maryrose Wood

#2. Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.

Anne Rice

#3. I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to.

Simon Rich

#4. Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand ...

Anne Sexton

#5. To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first.

Henry Kissinger

#6. Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Walter Lippmann

#7. As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Ngaio Marsh

#8. Where is home?
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

Laura Wiess

#9. My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

Jimmy Cliff

#10. I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

Neneh Cherry

#11. If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.

Tadahiko Nagao

#12. I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Emma Watson

#13. THE MIRACLE EQUATION: Unwavering Faith + Extraordinary Effort = Miracles. When you maintain unwavering faith in your dreams and give extraordinary effort toward your goals, that is how you create miracles in your life.

Hal Elrod

#14. The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Alva Myrdal

#15. Noahnoah, promise me something, one very last thing: once your good-bye is perfect, you have to leave me and not look back. Live your life. It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here."

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

Fredrik Backman