Gasbag Quotes

#1. Ultimately, what we're looking for is someone who's enough of a morally flexible gasbag to get over with the money people, and then also charming enough on some politically irrelevant level to attract voters. (

Matt Taibbi

#2. I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said.

Janet Evanovich

#3. I didn't want to write a book, even a short one like this, that would leave me feeling like either a literary gasbag or a transcendental asshole.

Stephen King

#4. The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

Matt Shea

#5. In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Margaret MacMillan

#6. Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Mark Schultz

#7. England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature
for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

E. M. Forster

#8. I don't need drugs to make weird music.

Kool Keith

#9. To create a State and give it the power of life and death does not solve the problem of human evil. It merely transforms the shallow desire for easy property to the bottomless lust for political power.

Stefan Molyneux

#10. Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Randy Alcorn

#11. There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I'm not sure I can be what they want me to be. But I'll try.

A.S. King

#13. For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

Jasper Fforde

#14. To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. - Leonard Bernstein, composer

Meg Jay

#15. He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil

Karina Halle

#16. Between acts they could gamble on one-armed bandits, which were legal in Anne Arundel County.

Antero Pietila

#17. With comedy I can search for the profound.

Dario Fo

#18. I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared.

Rebecca St. James