Gasbag Quotes & Sayings

Love is the only thing that can touch our soul and change our heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage.. — Aldous Huxley

I didn't want to write a book, even a short one like this, that would leave me feeling like either a literary gasbag or a transcendental asshole. — Stephen King

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through. — Jack Kirby

Besides, it was beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments. — Brandon Sanderson

Ultimately, what we're looking for is someone who's enough of a morally flexible gasbag to get over with the money people, and then also charming enough on some politically irrelevant level to attract voters. ( — Matt Taibbi

We are human beings, not human doings. — Rick Warren

I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said. — Janet Evanovich

Wiping grime from his hands, Nick contemplated one of the world's great mysteries: why man had ever combined computers and the internal combustion engine. — Robin Kaye

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. — John Cleese

On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work. — Sherman Alexie

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version. — Stacy Schiff

Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money. — Rick Warren