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Quotes About Babble

I'll babble, bubble and talk around those I know real good.
~ Joey Heatherton
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
~ Lance Morrow
Heroes and fast sleepers, then, can switch off their thoughts when necessary. Cowards and insomniacs, my people, are plagued by babble on the brain.
~ David Benioff
The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.
~ Theo Paphitis
Presently I somehow found myself singing. The words were mere nonsense- irresponsible babble...Humanity would have rejected it with scorn. Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognized and accepted it without a flicker of dissent.
~ Kenneth Grahame
You like to dance," he observes conversationally. "Yes…" Safe question, safe answer. Well, at least I didn't babble.
~ Lauren Henderson
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
~ Timothy Noah
Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope.
~ Evelyn Waugh
There is no lyric poetry that isn't the gurgle or chuckle of egoists, the murmur of cheats, the babble of traitors, the burble of social climbers, the warble of faggots.
~ Roberto Bolano
Or that they believed you would not be here to inflict the consequences," said Ekaterin. Had they meant Vorkosigan to die, too? Or . . . what? "Oh, nice. That's reassuring." He bit rather aggressively into the last of his sandwich. She rested her chin on her hand and regarded him with wry curiosity. "Does ImpSec know you babble like this?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
All India is full of holy men stammering gospels in strange tongues; shaken and consumed in the fires of their own zeal; dreamers, babblers and visionaries: as t has been from the beginning and will continue to the end. Followed the usual aimless babble that every low-caste native must raise on every occasion. Swiftly - as Orientals understand speed - with long explanations, with abuse and windy talk, carelessly, amid a hundred checks for little things forgotten.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.
~ Paula Fox
That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.
~ Jonathan Stroud
They only babble who practise not reflection.
~ Edward Young
It was in such a context that Trotsky scorned "papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life," and Lenin
~ Stephen Kotkin
We must put an end once and for all,' said Trotsky, 'to the Papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion. —René Daumal (1908–1944), French poet and critic
~ Meg Cabot
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
~ Lance Morrow
My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.
~ Joss Whedon
These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.
~ Thomas Hardy
Tradition,—which sometimes brings down truth that history has let slip, but is oftener the wild babble of the time, such as was formerly spoken at the fireside and now congeals in newspapers,—tradition is responsible for all contrary averments.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Phryne escaped from the babble to go outside and scan the ground in front of the broken window.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration of the worldwide availability of Wheel of Fortune .
~ Christopher Hitchens