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We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.
so entering a conversation that you'd overheard but hadn't been invited to join was sort of like peeing in someone's coffee while they stood there and watched you do it.
When it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance.
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.
Hey, you wanna drop back a few paces? Did you forget how spying works? You're supposed to at least aim for unobtrusive. The others pretty much have it down, but you're about as inconspicuous as a drag queen at a Girl Scout meeting.
A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.
If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.
No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.
Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.
Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H
I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!
I have some sneaking to do. The thought of it kicks my heartbeat sideways.
In the silence, hear what can't be heard.
There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue.
Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.
There are sneaking,
creeping, crumpling
noises coming from
inside the walls.
I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.
talking into her phone.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,
Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.
What is reading but silent conversation.
And quickly my mom put her arm around my shoulders and spun me back toward the car, walking quickly, and I was like, "Mom, what's wrong?" And she said, "We can't eavesdrop, Hazel.
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?
All the time.
Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.
You're being watched too, remember?"
"I wasn't aware - "
"That some of the screens you're looking at are looking at you?"
"Yes."
"Well, they are.
There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to.
You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.
You can't think the thoughts you want to think if you think you're being watched.
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
I can be a bit nosey. I like a bit of gossip.
Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you're trying to be sneaky.
What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?
I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." The
Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.
While others are broadcasting be listening
He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.
Silent words are heard through eyes.
I converse with my dog through ESP.
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
Edward Snowden made an audacious claim: I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.
If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.
They were probably whispering their secrets but how would I know?
NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the
Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.
I'm not a spy, which is the real question
I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie.
"Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.
You are being watched.
Who knew? Spies read.
That's the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.
Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it.Peep-- Barry Davies
Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
An unguarded gaze can spill a thousand secrets.
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
Big Brother is watching ... look busy.
No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
You don't have to whisper. No-one can here you.
In a wired world, silence is suspicious.
Real communication is impossible without listening.
Secrets are the currency of intimacy
( ... ) unkept secrets always manage to escape, under a door, through a keyhole or an open window, until everyon knows everything and nobody knows how ... ( ... )
Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
Those who really know and care about you can hear you even when you haven't spoken a word
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
Googling is not spying. It's social networking.
I swore I'd never be the girlfriend who spies on her boyfriend's phone, but tough shit. I'm her today.
Everything communicates
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.
As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.
What's this all about?" Anne asked as I closed the door, pressing my ear up against it. "Can you hear anything?" I asked. They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.
We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context?
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Listen for dangerous words.
You stuck listening devices all over the dacha
even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.