Blab Quotes & Sayings

In the kingdom of bang and blab. — Theodore Roethke

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence. — Alain De Botton

There is now a scourge that is called Twitter — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Yeah. They used to bang, and people tend to blab after a bang."
"I'll be sure to guard my tongue."
"It's usually tired from all the work during the bang," she pointed out, and made him laugh.
"True enough. — J.D. Robb

But we often put our loves out of order. If someone tells you something in confidence and then you blab it as good gossip at a dinner party, you are putting your love of popularity above your love of friendship. If you talk more at a meeting than you listen, you may be putting your ardor to outshine above learning — David Brooks

In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. — J.I. Packer

Use your beak energy not to blab but to poke through the eggshell. — N

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually. — Pirjo Honkasalo

The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure. — Milan Kundera

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily. — Peter Agre

During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders — John D. Voelker

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. — Tony Gilroy

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people. — Richelle E. Goodrich

[regarding a toothache] It made me realize how much one's mind is at the mercy of one's physical well-being, as at times I felt quite demented. My admiration for people who withhold information under torture has increased ten-fold since this ghastly night, for I am quite certain that even the threat of such pain would be enough to make me blab put any secret, and even to make up further disclosures if I felt that these might mitigate the pain at all. Truly a most shattering revelation. — Miss Read

I was once arrested for resisting arrest. — Steven Wright

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow. — Julie Walters

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. — Jack Welch

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations. — Paul Goodman

Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right. — Chuck Palahniuk

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable. — Elon Musk

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess? — Ted Hughes

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal. — Michael Bassey Johnson