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Quotes About Hint

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
~ Duke Ellington
The hint speaks to the heart and will only be heard by those with a sensitive and open ear. This powerless discourse of the hint can be seen at work in Jesus' parables, which can only truly be heard by those 'with ears to hear'.
~ Peter Rollins
Why, my good man, thou hast the curiosity of a girl. Who could have believed, that only a slight hint would have set thy imagination agog in such a manner. And a fine encouragement I have to unravel the mystery as thou callest it. Nothing less, truly, than to be told something to my disadvantage. What an excellent reward that will be! In what court of justice didst thou learn that equity?
~ Abigail Adams
You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
~ Bill Viola
On 'Love Letters' I focused exclusively on sung music, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing emotions in a way that instrumental music can only hint at.
~ Anoushka Shankar
A certain nonchalant ease pervades our modern world: we affect an indifference we scarcely feel; our talk is light almost to affectation, our best writing is the same -- we suggest rather than elaborate, hint rather than declaim.
~ Walter Bagehot
It was only the first stage, that was all. It was only the first knot in the snare, the first flick of the hook; the first hint of the spin in the arrow. The first letting of blood not his own.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining.
~ Julian Barnes
but did I mention
~ Karin Slaughter
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
~ Robert Frost
A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.
~ William Landay
today as then I am a solitary, because I know things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.6
~ David H. Rosen
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
~ Austin O'Malley
I can give you two words, " I tell him. "The second is off. Can you guess the first?
~ Darren Shan, Zom-B Underground
A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
~ Annie Barrows
The archetypal idea of "home" points in two directions at once. It points backward toward an original hint and taste for union, starting in the body of our mother.
~ Richard Rohr
semaphored warning as well as I could. He took the hint.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
~ Richard Russo
Her arms and shoulders and neck were strong. Her makeup was perfect. Her face was dominated by her eyes. Her face hinted strongly at intelligence and heat. Excellent combination.
~ Robert B. Parker
We have to look at the people who opened the case, and see how they're tied with the I-Man. Melon gave me a hint. He told me the I-Man never does anything alone, and only with people he trusts. He wasn't implying they're honest." "What
~ Robert Crais
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
~ Ivan Turgenev
What people had been calling a "gut reaction" turned out to be a mere hint of the complex intelligence at work in a hundred thousand billion cells. In a sweeping medical revolution, scientists have
~ Deepak Chopra
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche