Hot Air Quotes

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.

I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.

A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.

Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.

He can't run nothing but his mouth.

One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting on my wall, of balloons with goofy faces rising - pundits screaming at each other and arguing off into the ether.

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.