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Quotes About Overhear

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
~ Art Garfunkel
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
~ Jason Schwartzman
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There are some things you shouldn't overhear, some things that are too terrible to comprehend when other people are discussing them, even though they're happening to you.
~ Robyn Schneider
Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get from here to there.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
She swallowed uncomfortable dryness at the unprecedented endearment, trying not to remember he'd been as affectionate to Mr. Priest when she was not meant to overhear.
~ Elizabeth Bear
How—I didn't know any word for it—how "unlikely". . . How had I come to be here, like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn't?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
He didn't see the look his brothers shared or overhear the vow they made to one another--that if any one of the four of them were to make it back from Ticonderoga, it would be Iain.
~ Pamela Clare