Fluff Quotes

• If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

  A. A. Milne

  Teacher, Sweet, Talking

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• I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

  Sandra Bullock

  Cookies, Cookie Dough, Marshmallow

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Mean

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• Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

  Steve Pavlina

  Creating Value, People, Should

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Simple

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.65, Chartwell

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• It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm—and a year later, it’s all foundered in the mire of conflict. We could have changed the world ten times over—if we didn’t have to do it together with other people, those irritating, self-righteous, controlling, fluff-brained, clueless idiots who are our friends and allies.

  Starhawk

  Inspiration, Clueless, Passion

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• Room service. You like me fluff pillow?

  Triple H

  Wwe, Room Service, Rooms

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• In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Roles, Pieces

  "Clint Eastwood the Bashful Legend: Somebody Stop Me". Times Online, November 13, 2008.

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• When you catch an adjective, kill it.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Editing, Plain Language

  Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (1981). “The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Random House Value Pub

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

  Agatha Christie

  Brain, Use

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Missing, Female

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Mean, Plain Language

  Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (1981). “The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Random House Value Pub

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• A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

  A. A. Milne

  Fitness, Exercise, Trying

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.106, Egmont UK

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• Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

  Renee O'Connor

  Believe, Spirituality, Believe In Yourself

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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• To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, Godly, Men

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• Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Flower, Balls

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• Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

  Cass McCombs

  Play, Stuff, Racket

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• I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Floating, Pieces

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Twenties Girl”, p.11, Random House

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• There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

  Dorothy Parker

  Blow, Comparison

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

  A. A. Milne

  Mean, Thinking, Owl

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• Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot.

  J. K. Rowling

  Knowing, Air, Interesting

  "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

  A. A. Milne

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  A.A. Milne (2013). “The House at Pooh Corner”

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• Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.

  Julie Klam

  Trying, Pieces, Way

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• Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Priorities, Commodity

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