Quotes About Nosiness

#1. Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me).

Zack Love

#2. It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you. I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.

Mindy Kaling

#3. Translation: She was perishing with nosiness.

Alan Bradley

#4. Clusters of nosiness form at lockers; eyes, eyes, eyes on my face.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

Paul Theroux

#6. 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

#7. I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Jim Davis

#8. My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

Amy Bloom

#9. Look at me," Lucas said suddenly, leaning close and locking eyes with her. "You're the only girl I've ever kissed."
"Liar," Helen said so fast she practially cut him off.

Josephine Angelini

#10. If he's a Nazi, honey, then I'm Lady Gaga.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Act without expectation.

Laozi

#12. Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

Robert Harris

#13. I'm heading for a clean-named place
like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there
without help and nosy proclivities.

John Ashbery

#14. Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

Javier Marias

#15. You see her for who she really is, past all the disillusions most people get tangled up in when they think they are falling in love. You accept her flaws, and you love her just as much because of them as you do in spite of them.

Blakney Francis

#16. Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

Oliver Sacks

#18. Two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other - there is nothing so sad as two human beings.

Halldor Laxness

#19. Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Friedrich Schiller

#20. Multi-Choice question: My dishwasher is: efficient; hilarious.

Demetri Martin