Borborygmic Quotes

#1. This whole moment is the groin
Of a borborygmic giant who even now
Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

John Ashbery

#2. Perhaps it was the flabby stink of seared flesh that was making me feel peculiar; that, and the smoke from the candles on the tables and the borborygmic blarings of the three-piece band.

John Banville

#3. All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

Anurag Kashyap

#4. Persistence is the key to fulfilling the dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

#6. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Andy Borowitz

#7. He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament.

Doug Dorst

#8. Her voice was weak, too much air and not enough sound.

James Downe

#9. When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but did nothing.

Marvin Kalb

#10. An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Samuel Richardson

#11. The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

George Schultz

#12. There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#14. To dream is to possess.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. If love leaves an echo, I said, she is still with me.

Gerard Donovan

#16. Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Melody Robinette