Mumbling Quotes 

White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
Edith Sitwell
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The man, who laugh'd but once to see an ass mumbling to make the cross-grain'd thistles pass, Might laugh again to see a jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable law.


— Drydeti, The Medal.

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"You know what Canino will do---beat my teeth out and then kick me in the stomach for mumbling."

Raymond Chandler

— chapter 28 (The Big Sleep (1939))

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If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I’ve forgotten the road by which I came

han shan

— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011) tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840

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And this time I forget to slip into your slumber The light is on the left side of your head And I'm standing in your doorway And I'm mumbling and I can't remember the last thing that ran through my head

van morrison

— Ballerina

Tags: time, forget, slip, slumber, light, left, side, head, standing

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Ah! what if some unshamed iconoclast Crumbling old fetish raiments of the past, Rises from dead cerements the Christ at last? What if men take to following where He leads, Weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?

roden noel

— The Red Flag (1872).

Tags: what, iconoclast, old, fetish, past, Rises, dead, Christ, last

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If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I’ve forgotten the road by which I came


— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011) tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840

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[screams] Right... in the back... How'd you know?[fades to mumbling]


— Who: Head Alien
— Source: It's Walky!

Tags: screams, Right, How'd, you

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