Muttering Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides… — David Quammen
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are… — Stephen Levine
Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any… — Tallulah Bankhead
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media… — Frances O'Grady
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar… — Mark Steel
Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was… — Denis Johnson
There are demons and there are evil people in the world And you post a picture like that, and some cultist gets a hold of… — Pat Robertson
I am really tired of looking at my hips. I'm seriously really tired of standing naked in the mirror and staring at my hips for… — Louis C. K.
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing… — George Orwell
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under… — Richard Dreyfuss
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking… — A. P. Herbert
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the… — Jose Saramago
Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch… — Cassandra Clare
All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a… — Libba Bray
I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless) Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church." Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough." Iggy: "What… — James Patterson
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Advice,' DoÃ±a Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty… — Scott Lynch
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… — Michael Chabon
...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's… — Lisa McMann

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