Quotes About Mumbling

#1. Suddenly, Mr. Parker's shoulders drooped and he gave up, mumbling, Happy wife, happy life.

Cynthia Kadohata

#2. Across the street an addict was mumbling, his words, like Dan Smooth's, reminiscent of the structure of graphite, which is to say comprised of slender hexagonal plates of atoms which slough off at a touch like the multitudinous crusts of a Turkish pastry.

William T. Vollmann

#3. I've always been one to prefer dimbling down country lanes on me own cod mumbling to myself in some kind of mad ecstasy with a strange feeling of happiness in my step.

Andy Gibbons

#4. Old Blotnik had been mumbling so steadily for so many years, Ozzie suspected he had memorized the prayers and forgotten all about God. It

Philip Roth

#5. White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

Edith Sitwell

#6. Chapin was secured in the backseat - the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason - and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)

Elizabeth Peters

#8. Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Anne Rice

#9. But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

Zhuangzi

#10. View, Pigeon, he said, mumbling something inaudible before his breathing returned to slow and deep.
I couldn't help but watch him sleep; knowing he was dreaming about me sent a thrill through my veins that I couldn't explain.

Jamie McGuire

#11. I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, Now, where did I put that lizard?

Barbara Sher

#12. The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

George Saunders

#13. I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

Bill Murray

#14. The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.

Bill Maher

#15. I'm not certain, but it's quite possible I'm gradually maturing into the likeness of an elderly, angry, mumbling Scotsman.

A.M. Dean

#16. One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

Mark Valley

#17. I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the sevice. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. I value the lover's
sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
mumbling his prayers.

Omar Khayyam

#19. Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

Shannon Hale

#20. Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

Margaret Walker

#22. I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

Curtis Jackson

#23. I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Derek Bailey

#24. Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

Nadine Gordimer

#25. Intervals of munching and mumbling as she crammed food into her mouth. I did not blame Lady Baskerville for her precipitate departure

Elizabeth Peters

#26. He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion.

William Gaddis

#27. I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

Channing Tatum

#28. We are all one tiny truth from screaming madly at the sky and walking home mumbling about trees.

Alexx Bollen

#29. The heads of twenty or thirty giants standing in a circle, mumbling and swaying, maybe doing the evil monster version of Kumbayah.

Rick Riordan

#30. The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

Slavoj Zizek

#31. Do you ever think about the fact that Jesus never said a mumbling word? You may have heard that phrase before, but how much have you ever thought about it?

Monica Johnson

#32. The fellow inmate shook his head and walked away mumbling to himself. Andrews smiled

William Roy Pipes

#33. The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

Mason Cooley

#34. I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos.

Roman Genn