Quotes About Suggestive

I am not interested in political writing, because it's limited in its scope. I try to write general, human kinds of songs, which suggest more than they explain. You can take a lot of different meanings, but hopefully everyone feels some kind of recognition.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild - and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.

prurient interest.

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

Nice dress. Take it off.

Uwaaaaahh! Why does taking off traditional clothing sound so suggestive?! --Kaoru Hanabishi

Too late I realized this sounded like a come-on. Yeah,Hayden, he would say, I want you to show me some- wink- stretches! -nudge nudge.

things from the interred past that poked up inconveniently into the present, halfway houses with their portals that went nowhere, that led only into a suggestive nothing.

I was on a date, and this girl teased a banana in a suggestive manner, and said, "That could be you." I replied, "Well then, I should probably get that dark soft-spot looked at."

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

3. Suggestibility

Don't be too obvious about it.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?" "It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.

Whatever belonging to the region of thought and feeling is uttered in words, is of necessity uttered imperfectly. For thought and feeling are infinite, and human speech, although far-reaching in scope, and marvellous in delicacy, can embody them after all but approximately and suggestively.

Q: What's the speed limit of sex? A: Sixty-eight. Because at 69 you have to turn around.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

But living like this is for me the difference between a luminous life and a ho-hum life. So be it! With my whole heart, I live as I live. My affinity is to the whimsical, the illustrative, the suggestive—not to the factual or the useful. I walk, and I notice. I am sensual in order to be spiritual.

Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.

It's tempting to trivialize the power of metaphors. To each of the earlier examples, the natural response is to say, Well, of course the right metaphor is more useful. The other metaphor was wrong! Though that's a natural reaction, it's simplistic. The history of science isn't a series of switches from the wrong metaphor to the right one. It's a series of changes from worse metaphors to better ones, from less inclusive to more inclusive, from suggestive in one area to suggestive in another.