Blather Quotes:

Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.

- Gudrun Ensslin

source: "A Terrorist Call for 'Building a Red Army'". germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. June 5, 1970.

topic: Action, Blather, Doilies

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

- Hugh Sidey

topic: Politics, Blather, Deals, Campaigning

Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

- Marion Woodman

topic: Healing, Past, Listening, Inner Voice, Deep Listening

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

- George Will

topic: Communication, Noise, Normal, Idiom, Blather

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.

- Michael Dirda

source: "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

topic: Book, Writing, Self, Blather

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

- Epictetus

topic: Taken, Giving, Attention, Trivial Things, Blather

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

- James S.A. Corey

source: James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.89, Hachette UK

topic: Men, Politician, Holy, Blather, Holy Man

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Liberty, Speech, Libertarian, Vacuous, Blather

The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

- Stephen Harper

topic: Practice, Community, Facts, Blather

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

- Cecily von Ziegesar

topic: Girl, Fun, Writing, Gossip Girl, Blather

Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

- Harry Browne

topic: Country, Religious, Unique, Blather

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

- Richard Siken

topic: Joy, Sound, Mouths, Blather

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

- Dave Eggers

source: Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.263, Penguin UK

topic: Men, Hopeful, Balance, Blather

In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Support, Together, Pieces, Blather

We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

- Dean Wareham

topic: Weed, Independent, Sea, Too Much Information, Blather