Blather Quotes

#1. Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw
its breath from flesh of air
And no one there to hear its death
among the sad bushes
where the world rushes by
in a blather of asphalt and delay

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#2. No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Dave Eggers

#3. The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

Stephen Harper

#4. Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

Harry Browne

#5. As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

George Will

#6. I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#7. Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.

Gudrun Ensslin

#8. Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.

Diane Williams

#9. Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror.
But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.

Peter J. Leithart

#10. The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Michael Shermer

#11. My characters blather away to each other. I simply turn up and listen.

Lia Riley

#12. No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

James S.A. Corey

#13. We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

Dean Wareham

#14. We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

Hugh Sidey

#15. It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.

Theodore Dalrymple

#16. To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Ched Myers

#17. Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments.

Amit Ray

#18. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

William Wordsworth

#19. You lied to me!"
"You're going to have to be more specific. What did I lie to you about this time?

Gina Damico

#20. Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

George Carlin

#21. The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

Hugh Sidey

#22. I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

#23. I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Chelsea Clinton

#24. Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#25. God fights for us even we are in the wrong and he deals with us afterwards, what a gracious Father.

Euginia Herlihy

#26. For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

Bryn Terfel

#27. That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

W. Bruce Cameron

#28. Hating L.A. was in my Northern California DNA. We even had a burl plaque that hung on our living room wall that read, "We Don't Give a Damn How it's Done in L.A.

Antonia Crane

#29. Are you teasing me?" "Absolutely. Does it bother you? I just thought you could use a little humor. Am I wrong?" "No. I like to be teased. It kind of makes me feel like I'm a part of something, or that someone likes me... I can't explain it, but it feels good.

Sarah Ann Walker

#30. I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

Newt Gingrich