William Gibson Quotes

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

I don't intentionally eavesdrop. I'm not looking for salacious gossip, I'm just looking for vocabulary items.

According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip, it has always been the words themselves that I wanted to understand.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

[Wiretapping is] a dirty business…. [Espionage] has been employed by every tribe and state since the beginning of history.

Everybody spies on everybody.

Someone is always watching or listening.

The word 'eavesdropper' originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the 'eavesdrip' of their house - from which the collected raindrops would fall - in the hopes of catching any juicy tid-bits of information that might come their way from their neighbour's property.

I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.

I strongly believe the Government are listening to everything we say.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

I'd love to be able to be invisible, because I like to eavesdrop.