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Quotes About Nodding

Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
~ Walt Whitman
asked, and the guard only smiled and nodded. Roscoe stood up out of the recliner and walked to the door. "You know, you don't have to show me the way. I done this enough times now, I know how to get there." "Yeah, probably," the guard said. "They just like us to walk along with you, make sure you don't get lost along the way. Besides, I've got
~ David Archer
There were hours built in where you had to hear someone express feelings about something that didn't seem important, and you nodded and pretended that it was. You had to mask your own ambivalence and pretend to be in love one hundred percent of the time, and he'd rather swim in a lake of hellfire.
~ Rachel Kushner
Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.
~ Jethro Tull
Nodding and laughing- Really, really laughing- The guards too. Laughing and nodding and blinking and patting down his hair, the spittle on his chin- Michael John Myshkin, murderer of children is laughing- Spittle on his chin, tears on his cheeks.
~ David Peace
Richard Kirshenbaum
~ Madrileños nodding
Martin nodded, his head snapping up and down. He was wearing baggy gray sweatpants and no shirt. His torso was soft and undeveloped and covered with a thick growth of fine hair. He squinted against the bright morning sun. "Yeah, sure. What do you want?
~ Robert Crais
I nod like I'm listening,like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
John is standing at the other end of the table, drinking Coke and nodding his head to the beat.
~ Jenny Han
So he nodded, smiled, listened, was happy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Now, see, Wes said, nodding at my plate, this is going to blow your mind. I looked at him. It's a waffle, not the second coming.
~ Sarah Dessen
Roberto nodded like a bobblehead doll on speed.' (Carlos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The people moved sluggishly through the warmth, and he moved with them, conscious of his height among the seated figures, nodding to the faces he now recognized.
~ John Williams
The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod – and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
~ Mark Twain
The Captain's boat inspections were always pretty slapdash, because they mainly just involved him looking at the ropes and planks and barnacles and then nodding to show that he approved of whatever they happened to be doing.
~ Gideon Defoe
Head nodding has its origins in bowing to appear subordinate.
~ Barbara Pease
Self-esteem. That's one of those catch-all terms that means nothing at all, but the mere mention of it leaves all the socially conscious liberal types nodding sagely and scratching their chins.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
The mixtapes, and a lot of our music, it comes from a place of fandom and appreciation and of respect and of nodding toward stuff that we feel really affectionate towards.
~ Dan Smith
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.
~ Sarah Cooper
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Well farmer,' said the officer, nodding his appreciation as he looked me over.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. "Then we only have one problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. "How do I get invited?
~ Brandon Mull
Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.
~ Ian Mcewan
There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.
~ Andrzej Duda