Top 71 Quotes About Babbling: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Babbling

#1. Whenever possible, Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, Chief of Clan MacAulay,
avoided rooms crowded with Englishmen. They were all babbling gossips with more earwax than
brains, as his father was wont to say.
Though Shakespeare had got there first.

Eloisa James

#2. I don't know what any of this means, but I know that when I thought you were gone, I couldn't breathe. It felt like half of me was missing." I kept babbling, my edit button not only broken, but completely obliterated. "I'm seventeen. Who feels like this at seventeen?

Myra McEntire

#3. Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.'

Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}

Diana Gabaldon

#4. If a tattoo is supposed to make a statement, that kid's body is just plain babbling.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#5. Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.

Kevin Hearne

#7. I led Paul out the door, and neither of us said a word while we crossed the street. Once we made it to the other side, Paul stopped to stare at the building. He was babbling incoherently. The only words I caught were "fucking uptown" and "pancreas." He still had the doorman's pen in his hand.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#8. If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

Robert Breault

#9. I'd prefer a debriefing by the professional," Matthias said. "Rather than one of the idiot's exhausting, million-words-in-one-breath babbling explanations." "Hey," I said. "That is a rare talent." "Maybe your only talent.

A&E Kirk

#10. The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself
who according to the Rabbins was also the first author
not being an original; the only original author being God.

Herman Melville

#11. Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

David Luiz

#12. At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

Mike Tyson

#13. I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

Deb Baker

#14. In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

Heather O'Neill

#15. I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Auguste Rodin

#16. Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.

Howard Bloom

#17. We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Gore Vidal

#18. Forget birds singing, bells ringing, brooks quaintly babbling over rocks. Choirs of angels could go hang. Her voice, even scratchy and weak, was the most beautiful thing he'd ever heard.

Tessa Dare

#19. I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

Paul Theroux

#20. When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans. MATTHEW 6:7 NIV

Billy Graham

#21. What is it about those two words - I'm sorry - that makes otherwise articulate guys into babbling idiots?

Melissa Jensen

#22. There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Shaun Hick

#23. The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

Ovid

#25. No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.

John L. Lewis

#26. Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.

Kabir

#27. You're babbling," she said. "Go back to the part about making a home with someone you love."
His lips curved. "Did you like that part?"
"I did," she admitted, "like that part."
"Good. I like it too.

Theresa Romain

#28. It's one of the magical things about life, that when you hit a wall, you step back genuinely and humbly ... and the answers suddenly flow like a babbling brook.

Gregor Collins

#29. There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Dan Harmon

#30. I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

Mike Tyson

#31. Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice.

Anthony Trollope

#32. Ms. Whitlock is lost in her own world as she continues babbling about poem interpretations and people who died too long ago.

Katie McGarry

#33. More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.

Donna Tartt

#34. Unbelievable. After what just happened between us no, I don't have any right. None at all. We're barely a couple. We're not even sleeping together. I have to-" What in God's name are you babbling about?" "You're cheating on me!" "I never cheat.

Jennifer Rardin

#35. It wasn't until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of "Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium," to the Peanuts theme music.

Jim Butcher

#36. As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

Renita J. Weems

#37. I love you," I heard myself say right before I started babbling. "God ... I just ... I ... I love you, and if you had ... if he had ... fuck ... I can't be without you. I love you, Lia.

Shay Savage

#38. The Yirkalla aborigines of Arnhem Land in Australia hear sacred song words in the babbling of babies. To them, songs are never composed but only discovered: all songs exist already.

Philip Ball

#39. It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Mike Royko

#40. Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Deb Caletti

#41. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#42. Wise words come from the lips of people with understanding, but those lacking sense will be beaten with a rod. 14 Wise people treasure knowledge, but the babbling of a fool invites disaster.

Anonymous

#43. Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

Julie Andrews

#44. In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about
which things numbered in the dozens right now
or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.

C.E. Murphy

#45. Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

William Shakespeare

#46. From From the Journal of Crispin

There is a monotonous babbling in our dreams
That makes them our dependent heirs, the heirs
Of dreamers buried in our sleep, and not
The oncoming fantasies of better birth.

Wallace Stevens

#47. instead a different sort of joy, a little girl tucked up between him and his wife, babbling away. She'll be just learning to talk now, all "Dada" and "Mama" and a secret language incomprehensible to anyone but a parent.

Paula Hawkins

#48. There's always time for babbling.

Eoin Colfer

#49. I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

#50. That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead.

Samuel Beckett

#51. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#52. Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Johannes Tauler

#53. The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizarding world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you, in one night, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons!

J.K. Rowling

#54. Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.

St. Sukie De La Croix

#55. No one touched the bottom of the lake and lived. If you were lucky, you'd surface wide-eyed and frantic, babbling at the darkness, the thickness of what lay below. If you were unlucky, underwater recovery dragged the lake for your body.

Karen Katchur

#56. I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling stream/took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens.

Elvis Costello

#57. I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#58. I have no time for babbling foolishness."
"Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.

Eoin Colfer

#59. Helen spent three days in Rhys Winterbournes's room babbling incessantly while he lay there feverish and mostly silent. She became heartily tired of the sound of her own voice, and said something to that effect near the end of the second day.
"I'm not," he said shortly. "Keep talking.

Lisa Kleypas

#60. And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Stephen King

#61. There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

Lemony Snicket

#62. Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

Honore De Balzac

#63. When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.

Zoro

#64. The voice of madness, for instance, is barely a whisper in the babbling history of art because its realities are themselves too maddening to speak of for very long - and those of the Teatro have no voice at all, given their imponderably grotesque nature.

Thomas Ligotti

#65. I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her - babbling!!

Tennessee Williams

#66. I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'

Alexandra Cassavetes