Yammering Quotes

#1. Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

Gottfried Keller

#2. When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

Steve Erickson

#3. At a rear window I hear the heart-rendering cries of my captive kind, plus a lot of yammering from the idiotic dogs, who will raise about the same ruckus for a simple rabies shot as they would for the end of the world.
--Midnight Louie

Carole Nelson Douglas

#4. And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie wolves so like in their yammering, yet all about so changed and strange.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Doctor Mahfouz was always yammering on about how everyone had humanity in them. From Mahlia's experience, the doctor was sliding high, but now, as she looked at this sergeant named Ocho, she wondered if there was some bit of softness in this hard scarred boy that she might be able to work.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies.

Anne Lamott

#7. The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several hundred wildcats and wolves being roasted slowly alive together would not have compared with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. Say who with the what now? Well, Merry Christmas and Ho Ho Holy Crap. Just what the hell have I been yammering on about?

Qwen Salsbury

#10. Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

Rachel Nichols

#11. Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Heinlein Robert A.

#12. My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

Kara Swisher

#13. I don't believe in God. She drops by once in a while and we argue about it. Now can you stop yammering on with your questions long enough for us to steal a few horses?

Elizabeth Bear

#14. Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."
He laughs.

Lauren DeStefano

#15. When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

Billy Corgan

#16. When you seek love in every steps of life, love will seek you every moment of life.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Living in the mistakes of your past isn't going to do anything but destroy your future.

Rebecca Donovan

#18. Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

Michael Hudson

#19. [The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

Horace Rowan Gaither

#20. I love cold, rainy weather.

Catherine Bell

#21. You can't jump to the top of the mountain, you have to climb. It's the tiny steps that will get you to the top.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#22. It is because God loves the world he has made, and especially his human creatures, that he hates everything that spoils, wrecks, or defaces it.

N. T. Wright

#23. There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours.

John Bruna

#24. By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#25. PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

Charles Dickens

#27. The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

John Sergeant Wise

#28. I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

Jamie Blackley