Sputter Quotes

#1. I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life ... The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

Nick Hornby

#2. But Dataran and the boy in the holograph both had pronounced cheekbones and slender frames that suggested a particular grace. And they had both made her fan sputter. What

Marissa Meyer

#3. To sputter and giggle - Baby too. "I followed my piss!" I said between hiccupping laughter. "She followed her piss and her dreams came true!" Rachel screamed. "Follow your piss, Obi-Wan Kenobi," Barbara intoned.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#4. Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

Robert T. Bakker

#5. WASTED ASSET
Premium fuel in the luxury vehicle / Junk in the body = Robust performance / Sputter and crawl

Kamil Ali

#6. From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out ... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.

Gore Vidal

#7. So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

Victor Davis Hanson

#8. For a moment, Blue was actually lost for words. She had never believed people who claimed to be speechless, but she was. She opened her mouth, and at first, all that came out was air. Then something like the beginning of a laugh. Then, finally, she managed to sputter, I am not a prostitute.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually.

Sarah Dessen

#10. An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

Dale Carnegie

#11. Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

William Wycherley

#12. We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds ... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

Chris Avellone

#13. Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: Stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die.

Gayle Forman

#14. Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Stephen Rodrick

#15. The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.

M. Russell Ballard

#16. An ambitious effort to build the first handheld computer, the Newton, seemed to sputter even before the first version was released.

Max Chafkin

#17. You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

Rex Stout

#18. Forgiveness is selfish. We give it not because it's earned, but because it's what we need. To find peace. To be whole.

Emma Chase

#19. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

Sherman Alexie

#20. There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

Robert MacArthur

#21. It's a hard emotion to explain - what it feels like to fake every single moment of your life. To breathe but to not exist. To smile but to not be happy. To nod and agree but to not really care.

Jay McLean

#22. 181. (The) Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare 182. Two Sickles 183. Hats and Socks for the House Elves 184. Dumbledore's Army 185. A Fake Galleon 186. Confundus 187. Cormac McLaggen 188. Professor Slughorn's 189. Charms 190. Ron View the questions for this section

Chris Peacock

#23. The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

Stephen Elop

#24. I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Donna Tartt

#25. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#26. What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.

Edward Jenks

#27. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

Oscar Wilde