Michael Fassbender

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

German Actor

John Lasseter

I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.

American Director

Ksenia Sobchak

I am always getting messages that I am paid by America, that I work for America, that I am connected with CIA... blah blah blah. I am not working for America, I am working for my country's good, but America is not an enemy for me.

Russian Politician

Jack McBrayer

I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

American Actor

Giggs

I am seeing youts getting off the street. They talk about drill and its influence and how it's bad blah, blah, blah, but all I'm seeing is it's getting youts off the streets.

English Musician

Jackie Chan

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Chinese Actor

James Gandolfini

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

John Corabi

My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.

American Musician

Jennifer Damiano

Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.

American Actress

RJ Cyler

Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.

Use 'blah' when you're tired of what someone is saying or it seems unimportant.

Expressing Impatience

'Blah' mimics the sound of speech when details don't matter or are too long.

Mimicking Speech

Use 'blah' to summarize a speech or writing that overloaded you with information.

Summarizing Overload

Say 'blah' to show that you find someone's story or explanation unexciting.

Indicating Boredom

'Blah' can show you think someone's ideas are clichéd or predictable.

Reacting to Clichés

Using 'blah' can suggest you don't value what's being said.

Connotation of Dismissal

As an adjective, 'blah' describes a person, place, or thing as unimpressive.

Describing Dullness

Use 'blah' when you want to express a lack of enthusiasm or energy.

Lacking Enthusiasm

Use it to talk about things that are monotonous or too routine.

Describing Monotony

 why you want to invest, why this all makes sense. That said, we only have a very short time, so let's run through the things to include in your presentation. First of all, none of these big, long-titled slides with blah, blah, I'm presenting to so-and-so on X date. I know the day, I know who I am -- I don't need all that. Just give me your company logo.

David S. Rose: 10 things...

 and hexanoic acid blah blah ester come together to make a dry erasable ink except the thing is if you look these ingredients up online you will either find that they have a bajillion listed uses or none now normally this is where I would turn to the scientific community for help but no one seems to be doing a

What's in Dry-Erase...

 have stored about me and I asked him once and I asked him again and I got no real answer it was only blah blah answers but then I said I want to have this information because this is my life you are rotor calling so I decided to start the lawsuit against them because I wanted to have this

Your phone company is...

 And the shopkeeper said, "Do you want slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit? You want button fly or zipper fly? You want stonewashed or acid-washed? Do you want them distressed? Do you want boot cut, tapered?" Blah, blah, blah on and on he went. My jaw dropped. And after I recovered, I said,

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 So here goes, world premiere dance. Yeah? Here we go. TED dance. Okay. Here it comes. I'm going to organize it quickly. So, you're going to do the first solo that we made, yeah blah blah blah blah, we go into the duet, yeah, blah blah blah blah. The next solo, blah blah blah blah,

A Choreographer's...

 And over the next couple of minutes, I'm going to give you three ways that I think you can move through your world so that you, too, can make revelations of space, or at least reveal them. Step therapy. I know, I know, I blah, blah, blah, New Yorker, blah, blah, blah, therapy.

3 ways to create a space...

 time traveler I was going to travel into the future meet myself from the past grab this woman from the audience sucker back into the time as time travels forward the present becomes the future blah blah blah I spent a crazy amount of money on this machine and the audience

Mind-blowing illusions PIPE...

 send me all the information you have stored about me. And I asked them once, and I asked them again, and I got no real answer. It was only blah blah answers. But then I said, I want to have this information, because this is my life you are protocoling.

Malte Spitz: Your phone...

 We were looking for bliss in a blah day and purpose in a perpetual pandemic. But languishing is not unique to a pandemic. It's part of the human condition. Two decades of research show that languishing can disrupt your focus and dampen your motivation.

Adam Grant: How to stop...

 blah but now that we've mostly figured out what's in hand sanitizer and how it works I'm gonna try and make my own from scratch using only natural ingredients I'm going to start with ethanol this is 99% and to make it smell delightful I'm