Eavesdrop Quotes

#1. In my notboredom but lack of available activity, I eavesdrop from their closet, hunching down among the Capezios and crinolines piled on the floor.

Frances Mayes

#2. And I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I was in the right place-okay," I amended when he raised his eyebrows. "The wrong place at the right time." More head shaking.

Myra McEntire

#3. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Walker Evans

#4. I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people ... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.

Charlie Rose

#5. Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Tom Waits

#6. Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me.
"I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you."
"I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

Connie Willis

#7. Polly had been washing up when she'd heard the men talking late one night, and it's a poor woman who can't eavesdrop while making a noise at the same time.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

Elayne Boosler

#9. I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

Meg Cabot

#10. The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

Sherrod Brown

#11. Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.

Amitav Ghosh

#12. People inspire me. Everyone is such an individual and has unique stories. I'm a voyeur. I eavesdrop. Sometimes I ask questions. And sometimes people just want to tell me their stories.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Jane Smiley

#14. And quickly my mom put her arm around my shoulders and spun me back toward the car, walking quickly, and I was like, "Mom, what's wrong?" And she said, "We can't eavesdrop, Hazel.

John Green

#15. I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

Rachel Weisz

#16. 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

#17. One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.

Geraldine Brooks

#18. He met her eyes in the mirror. "I thought you weren't talking to me ever again."
"I'm not," she said ... "I'm talking to myself while you eavesdrop.

Suzanne Brockmann

#19. You stuck listening devices all over the dacha
even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.

Nikita Khrushchev

#20. Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder

#21. I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Lynda Barry

#22. Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

Jan Koum

#23. Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Kelley Armstrong

#24. 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

#25. Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

Mindy Kaling

#26. If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Lynda Barry

#27. It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Walker Evans

#28. Hey," Shayne said through the door. "You going to stay in there all night, because we're getting tired of trying to eavesdrop from out here. Can't hear a damn thing.

Jill Shalvis

#29. Let's let the stars watch
Let them stare
Let the wind eavesdrop
I don't care
For all that we've got, don't let go
Just hold me

The Civil Wars

#30. 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

#31. It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

Jon McGregor

#32. What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?" Bast asked curiously.
"I haven't the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.

Patrick Rothfuss

#33. So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way
we caught it like germs.

Margaret Atwood

#34. 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

#35. President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand.

Helen Thomas

#36. The scents of nature are largely a chemical conversation between plants and animals and humans merely eavesdrop.

Avery Gilbert

#37. 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

#38. I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.

Kelley Armstrong

#39. You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

J.K. Rowling

#40. I'm going to my room," Jessie Kay called. "Y'all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in without having to strain myself.

Gena Showalter