Chattering Quotes
46 quotes by 41 authors
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It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can…
— Henry James
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Since this girl in front of him represented not a person, but again the image, or something desirable, the last thing we would expect him…
— Ted Bundy
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The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating…
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks,…
— Homer
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Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering…
— James Lileks
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It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it.…
— Thomas Perry
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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the…
— Breyten Breytenbach
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Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite…
— Denise Linn
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Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
— Mary Webb
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
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The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the…
— Marilyn vos Savant
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It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I…
— Scott O'Dell
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish…
— Anne Lamott
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I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until…
— Jenny Valentine
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Medium clever,†Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.†“I’m always so glad…
— Cassandra Clare
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But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him-…
— Virginia Woolf
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do.…
— Vivienne Westwood
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All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents…
— Dave Brat
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump…
— Bruce Jackson
Who Wrote These Chattering Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 46 Chattering Quotes, led by these top contributors: