Prattling On Quotes

#1. I feel anchored, calm, even with Evelyn sitting across from me prattling on about a very large Faberge egg she thought she saw at the Pierre, rolling around the lobby of its own accord or something like that.

Bret Easton Ellis

#2. Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.

C. G. Jung

#3. There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.

Kamand Kojouri

#4. The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

Ann Rutherford

#6. The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;
and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!

Fanny Burney

#7. If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

Robert Rauschenberg

#8. More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#9. It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?

Tom Vilsack

#10. I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

David Guterson

#11. Masculine sexiness. But, the man behind that deep and

Lauren Blakely

#12. The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

Frances Densmore

#13. As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

John Adams

#14. Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of willful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.

Steven Erikson

#15. Secrets.
We keep them to protect ourselves.
We keep them to protect others.
We keep them out of shame.
We keep them out of fear.
We keep them... wait... do we keep them for do they keep us?

Ellen Hopkins

#16. The little smiling cottage! where at eve
He meets his rosy children at the door,
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent
To cheer his hunger after labor hard.

Edward Dyer

#17. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger

#18. And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Benjamin Franklin