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