Quotes About Being Overheard

#1. Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

Marty Rubin

#2. Our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Jake had blond hair with a slight curl, smooth skin pulled loose across a square jaw, and the perfect amount of baby fat left on his 19-year old face to soften the cheeks beneath his kind green eyes.

Lexi Maxxwell

#4. I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Natasha Trethewey

#5. I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Dominique Moceanu

#6. I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.

Louis C.K.

#7. The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

Vance Packard

#8. And don't try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join the Hell's Angels instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

Paul Morabito

#10. Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

D. A. Carson

#11. Was he again
I had never forgotten that overheard phrase of Eve's
being kind to be cruel? I only knew I had been given back enough to live on. And dimly, dimly, I began to see a new Last Act to crown my play.

Dodie Smith