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You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. — Joan Didion

Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number? — Henry D. Spalding

overheard her." "And — Lisa Jackson

Mma Makutsi had overheard this remark and had been so cross that her glasses misted over; that was always a bad sign, Mma Ramotswe knew. — Alexander McCall Smith

I'd like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die. — Steve Ballmer

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. — John Stuart Mill

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. — Shirley Booth

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

any great interference with the affairs of other people is a species of tyranny, — Thomas Robert Malthus

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore De Balzac

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me. — Holly Hood

Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions! — Frantz Fanon

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations. — Molly Ringwald

Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market. — Joseph Shellim

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall. — Ahdaf Soueif

Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation? — Demetri Martin

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone. — Lawren Leo

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women. — Penny Reid

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived. — Paul Rand

Do your best, but bear in mind that sometimes even your best efforts
don't give the desired results. — Eraldo Banovac

From all that I heard, and overheard, fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed. — V.C. Andrews

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else? — William S. Burroughs

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe. — Anne Tyler

But there are some words that when overheard will always twist a person's guts sideways. — Heather Hildenbrand

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard. — Marty Rubin

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault

He could sell snow to an Eskimo.
--Overheard in a Real Estate Office — Bob Eckstein

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. — Rita Dove

Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School — David James Duncan

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret. — Alexandre Dumas

The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd — Greg Egan