Rambling Quotes

34 quotes by 33 authors

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. — Marcus Aurelius
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead… — Scott Avett
If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in… — Carl Sagan
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out… — Viggo Mortensen
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Bruce Holland Rogers
Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are… — Vincent Canby
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the… — Ben Robertson
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,… — Maile Meloy
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever… — Ray Bradbury
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant… — Ian Mcewan
I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets… — Tim Winton
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you… — Dario Fo
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward… — Nancy Kress
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but… — William Butler Yeats
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the… — Prince Charles
About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing.… — Max Lucado
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth. — David Mamet
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller

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