Mumble Quotes

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. (Thomas Carlyle)

I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

Stephen Fry

Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.

Elvis Costello

I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I'm a cat. (Ravyn) I suppose it's a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

James H. Boren

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Donald Pleasence

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

David Arquette

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Benicio Del Toro

I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I'd met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me.

Patrick Modiano

I'm sorry, am I mumbling? Tell me when I'm mumbling. Damn ... I always mumble. (Jimi Hendrix)

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

Benjamin Hoff

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Channing Tatum

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

Channing Tatum

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

Derek Landy

As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.

Tony Kaye

I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll be like what, and i'll say it again and he'll still be like what, so now he's got me yellin. Man that tree is far away.

Mitch Hedberg

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

Wilson Mizner

Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit ..their delivery will still have important things to tell us.

Andrew Motion

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng? Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, "For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day." "Thy faith why false, my faith why true? 'tis all the work of Thine and Mine, "The fond and foolish love of self that makes the Mine excel the Thine." Cease then to mumble rotten bones; and strive to clothe with flesh and blood The skel'eton; and to shape a Form that all shall hail as fair and good.

Richard Francis Burton

Oh we mumble loudly, wear our shame so proudly.
Wore our blank expressions, trying to look interesting. (Modest Mouse)