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Quotes About Rambling

Listening to Bailey, it occurred to me that the best commentary tracks are often by experts who did not work on the film but love it and have given it a lot of thought. They're more useful than those rambling tracks where directors (notoriously shy about explaining their techniques or purposes) reminisce about the weather on the set that day.
~ Roger Ebert
He was a mine of irrelevant information and unasked-for good advice. Once started, he went on and on—boomingly.
~ Aldous Huxley
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
~ Aleister Crowley
He spent all that day roaming
~ Rudyard Kipling
The conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I HAVE, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find their path through what may be a sort of maze.
~ Ford Madox Ford
I'm doddering around like an old bumblebee, I'm all tangled up in the air, Ah sees it, I ain't tellin' things in the right order, what about it! You'll excuse me somewhat, kidding about my memories, digressing from rhyme to reason, jabbering away about my friends instead of showing you around!...Let's go! and let's keep going!...Let me show you around nicely...straying neither right nor left!...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Clothes I wear for mushroom hunting are rarely sent to the cleaner. They constitute a collection of odors I produce and gather while rambling in the woods. I notice not only dogs (cats, too) are delighted (they love to smell me).
~ John Cage
Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
~ Patrick Stump
The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.
~ Ruskin Bond
The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out. 'Where
~ Ruskin Bond
In a low voice, I told her many things in English, only using French when for some reason I couldn't find the word I wanted, rambling on about the France of my time, and the crude little colony of New Orleans where I had existed after, and how wondrous this age was, and how I'd become a rock star for a brief time, because I thought that as a symbol of evil I'd do some good.
~ Anne Rice
In rambling drunken confession, the father gave forth his guilt as though it belonged to anyone who roused.
~ Anne Rice
Gonjasufi may sound at first like a rambling hip-hop crackpot, but there's more to the California rapper and singer than mere eccentricity: What appears messy and thrown together is anything but.
~ Anthony Fantano
I just travel all the time.
~ Ivan Lendl
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
~ Ben Robertson
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.
~ Sei Shonagon
There's always time for babbling.
~ Eoin Colfer
The foolish words kept spilling from his mouth, though they seemed to have come from nowhere.
~ Mary Balogh
My lords, for more than half an hour you've not stopped questioning me about some fantastic story or other; one could in fact say that you're babbling, or rambling. By babbling, I mean, that you're talking nonsense; by rambling, that you're saying nothing at all.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.
~ Mark Zupan
In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
~ Alexander Payne
There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.
~ Julia Quinn
Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those things - according to The New York Times, every one of those subject matters is still relevant.
~ Marty Stuart