Gobbledegook Examples Quotes & Sayings

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes. — Charlie LeDuff

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow porcession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it. In his head, he could roam anywhere, and he found that his mind was quick and clear, his imagination unfettered and supple. He could stay with a thought for hours, turning it about. — Laura Hillenbrand

Collaboratition: the art of working with our competitors. — Holly Duckworth

I tried to bring them back, but apparently fixing the bodies doesn't return the souls. — Brandon Sanderson

Head on the crown and feet on the crowd,
That's how the French Revolution started.
Kings too proud, and people who bowed,
That's never a good tale to get mparted.

An evolution needs a revolution,
A revolution leads to a solution,
People have to follow intuition,
Then it will all come to fruition. — Ana Claudia Antunes

When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented. — John Patrick Shanley

A woman will be inclined to repeat a request that doesn't get a response because she is convinced that her husband would do what she asks, if he only understood that she really wants him to do it. But a man who wants to avoid feeling that he is following orders may instinctively wait before doing what she asked, in order to imagine that he is doing it of his own free will. — Deborah Tannen

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined. — Alan Cohen

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis

What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state. — William Shakespeare

Whenever Gansey talked to British people about America, they always seemed to think he meant Texas. — Maggie Stiefvater

There is very little you understand about my world, Juliette. — Tahereh Mafi

Repentance is for little children. — Adolf Eichmann

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey