A Quote by Tan Twan Eng

A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.

Tan Twan Eng

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Bent Conversations Eavesdropping Had Inside Over Place Side Taken Towards Window Years

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Tan Twan Eng
Malaysian - Novelist
Born: 1972

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

Thomas Malthus

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

James Lapine

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

Richard King

It was an extremely trying time for me. Best was still intimate with MacLeod and the others about the laboratory. I was out of the picture entirely. MacLeod had taken over the whole physiological investigation. Collip had taken over the biochemistry. Professor Graham and Dr. Campbell had taken over the whole clinical aspect of the investigation.

Frederick Banting

If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.

Frank Abagnale

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

Christina Baker Kline

For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.

Mike Schultz

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

Seth MacFarlane

I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.

Cris Collinsworth

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Val McDermid

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Matthew Arnold

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

Abraham Verghese

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

Uri Geller

One of the best side effects about working on 'Billions' that I did not anticipate were the number of conversations I had about gender identity with my fellow actors and also members of the crew. From the person holding the boom to the person wiring my microphone, just how many conversations I had with so many open minds and hearts.

Asia Kate Dillon

I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

Amy Tan

I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.

Kelley Armstrong

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