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• I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

  Jojo Moyes

  Two, Focus, Nerves

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• Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

  Honore de Balzac

  Music, Two, Kind

  "Massimilla Doni" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and James Waring, 1839.

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• That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

  Ovid

  Echoes, Nymphs

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• Unbelievable. After what just happened between us no, I don’t have any right. None at all. We’re barely a couple. We’re not even sleeping together. I have to-" What in God’s name are you babbling about?" "You’re cheating on me!" "I never cheat.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Cheating, Couple, Sleep

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• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

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• Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Cutting, Order

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• Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}

  Diana Gabaldon

  Cheer, Autumn, Kissing

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2395, Dell

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• Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

  Deb Caletti

  Real, School, Rocks

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Lasts, Firsts, Last Words

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 02, 2011

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• Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sweet, Honey, Sweet Honey

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.355, Del Rey

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• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

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• Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Meaningful, New Shoes

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• Do not keep the slanderer away,
  treat him with affection and honor:
  Body and soul, he scours all clean,
  babbling about this and that.

  Kabir

  Soul, Honor, Body

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• Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.

  Sandra Scarr

  Baby, Opportunity, Names

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• We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Party, Discipline, Democracy

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• At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

  Mike Tyson

  Neanderthals, Idiot, Crass

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• We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Democracy, Earth, Republic

  "Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.

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• The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tired, Heart, Men

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “Wind in the Willows (Illustrated): Children’s Classic with Original Illustrations”, p.5, e-artnow

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• I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

  Mike Tyson

  Neanderthals, Idiot, Persons

  "Mike Tyson on Broadway" by Avi Steinberg, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Islam is the religion of peace. And Islam, genuine, real Muslims are as opposed to Al-Qaeda and ISIS as we are. That is what has been dictated to our law enforcement agents by their superiors. If those were your instructions, and you have a terror attack and you're out there reporting to the media, trying to answer questions, you'd sound like a babbling buffoon, too, because you'd have to come up with ways to violate the very common sense you know is true.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Terror Attacks, Isis

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Cups, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sea, Water, Silence

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19

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• Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

  Josh Billings

  Echoes, Air, Gossip

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