Kevin Whately

When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.

English Actor

Terence Winter

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.

American Writer

Michael Ignatieff

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

Canadian Politician

Jonathan Pryce

It was very amusing to do 'GI Joe: Retaliation' scenes with Bruce Willis, who spends months rewriting his dialogue and then turns up and doesn't say it. Part of the time, he doesn't say anything, but mumbles and mutters.

Welsh Actor

Alice Oswald

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

British Poet

Stephen Hendry

There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case, I always have John Carroll around to deflect unpleasantness.

Scottish Entertainer

James Thurber

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

American Author

Drew Curtis

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

American Businessman

Aaron Sorkin

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

American Screenwriter

Ted Wheeler

If you know me, you know I mutter quite a bit. Not one of my most redeeming qualities.

American Politician

Often used when the speaker is preoccupied or anxious about an issue.

Expressing Worry

Indicates a speaker's dissatisfaction without directly confronting the issue.

Subdued Complaining

Used for speaking to oneself or in such a way that others are not meant to hear.

Private Utterance

Signals that the speaker is irritated or upset, but not openly aggressive.

Sign of Anger

Shows that the speaker is expressing unhappiness or dissatisfaction to themselves.

Quiet Discontent

Shows passive resistance or disagreement, without open challenge.

Understated Disagreement

Can be used to describe a general sense of sound from a disgruntled group.

Atmospheric Noise

Indicates that what is being said is not clear or direct, but the discontent is noticeable.

Inarticulate Sound

Can foreshadow a coming conflict or disagreement in a group.

Preemptive Displeasure

 And it could give us some fascinating insight into thematic categories and how these people were understanding their world. Quick example, the penniform. So penniform means feather-shaped in Latin and it's being treated as a geometric sign, but there are contexts such as this where people have muttered it kind of looks like a tree.

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 What we say depends on who we are. An older person might speak differently than a younger person. Someone from the south might speak differently than someone from the north. Once you know your characters, you can figure out how they talk. At this stage, it's helpful to use anti-social skill number muttering to yourself.

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 the same as multiple personality disorder or split personality. The schizophrenic mind is not split, but shattered. Everyone has seen a street person, unkempt, probably ill-fed, standing outside of an office building muttering to himself or shouting. This person is likely to have some form of schizophrenia.

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 think schizophrenia is not the same as multiple personality disorder or split personality the schizophrenic mind is not split but shattered everyone has seen a street person unkempt probably ill-fed standing outside of an office building muttering to himself or shouting this person is likely to have

 and you, as the quickest, run back with the lantern. Only three minutes have passed. So far, so good. Now comes the hard part. The professor and the janitor take the lantern and cross together. This takes them ten minutes since the janitor has to slow down for the old professor who keeps muttering

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 bit of them for the protein and they might also take some of the pupae larvae or there are the eggs as well so they might be going right down into the the base of this colony you know we also get mutter billy ants but they're more nomadic and they raid much bigger ends

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 all sort of rush around and they actually make a bit of a noise and it's like sure and that's quite similar to the mutter Billy ends which are raiding ends they still all sorts from different termite colonies and other ends as well

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 then you need to be there for them when they do." Now, at the time C.T. said those words, I started muttering under my breath, because you can't curse out a preacher, you know? But his words didn't make any sense to me,

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 And my father, in a low voice, muttering, "I'm just the youngest brother, there's nothing I can do. This is tradition." That's the night I learned the rules about what it means to be female in this world.

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 is it mama mutter stay back tattoo if it's not mama we could be in danger

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Subdued Complaining

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