Eavesreading Quotes & Sayings

Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. — Denise Linn

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception. — Marcel Proust

This morning, when she got on the bus, it kind of felt like he was waiting for her. He was holding a comic called Watchmen, and it looked so ugly that Eleanor decided not to bother eavesdropping. Or eavesreading. Whatever. (She liked it best when he read the X-Men, even though she didn't get everything that was going on there; the X-Men were worse than General Hospital. It took Eleanor a couple weeks to figure out that Scott Summers and Cyclops were the same guy, and she still wasn't sure what was up with Phoenix.) — Rainbow Rowell

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world. — Honeysuckle Weeks

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all. — Ravi Zacharias

Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel. — Raymond Chandler

And I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again. — Philip Roth

I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken. — Ernest Hemingway,

With me and Bill ... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band. — Bobby Hatfield

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world. — Alfred De Musset

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. — John Updike

It honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet? — Jane Goodall

...but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually. — Mary Balogh

To look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? — Vincent Van Gogh

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. — Wilfrid Sheed