Quotes About Nosiness

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Intense nosiness about everybody had always existed in the area. Gossip washed in, washed out, came, went, moved on to next target.

purchased merely for their entertainment value. I always regarded Wanda as an unsung heroine without whose "nosiness" (I myself think of it as "situational awareness") John List might have continued to evade justice for the rest of his wretched days. Wanda died in 1997 at the age of sixty-five.

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

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?

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

gente que no tiene vida siempre se tiene que meter en la de los dem

People who have no life always have to stick their nose in the life of others

Every time I turn around, Short Stuff got his nose in my business. But

A busybody's work is never done.

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.

SOMETIMES I bring a script I'm working on to a restaurant and sit near people and eavesdrop on them. I could rationalize it—Oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing—but it's basically just nosiness. I especially