Quotes About Suggestion

I suggested we hire a new engineer, but someone ignored me. (Vik) And what was I supposed to do? Shit one out? (Devyn)

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

More and more life is what we want' Tennyson wrote long ago, and that is the right want. Indifference to life is disease, and therefore not strength. But the life here is only half the apple — a cut out of the apple, I should say, merely meant to suggest the perfect round of fruit — and there is in the world now

I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I had better do.' 'And did the Lord suggest your sticking up your father for ten shillings?' 'No, I thought of that,' said Maud, not turning a hair.

Here lay hidden the secret of the sensuous art of literature; it was the secret of suggestion, the art of causing delicious sensation by the use of words.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' do - to suggesting what it could be. Yet I'm still left wondering: Couldn't it be more?

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

I wanted to be a veterinarian and go to school in Boston. It didn't quite work out that way, and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome - and I didn't realize it at the time, -but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities.

I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

It has a strange way of making sense," Ruth whispers. Mr. Bell nods. "The mis-arrangement of words suggests reincarnation. It suggests multiple, endless readings.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

At the same time, a faint sense of disappointment superimposed on an otherwise absorbing inner experience was in its way suitably Proustian too: a reminder of the eternal failure of human life to respond a hundred per cent; to rise to the greatest heights without allowing at the same time some suggestion, however slight, to take shape in indication that things could have been even better.

See why I think I owe you good advice? And please don't look on me with prejudice: My gender has no bearing on the question Whether I'm offering you a good suggestion.

He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion; But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another Layeth it to heart;--he is a useless man.

I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that I should take my revolver with me. He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop, which was his favourite weapon.

la sugestión abre de golpe las puertas que para la autosugestión se abrirían lentamente por sí mismas.

La sugestión, en efecto, no puede producir nada que no se halle ya entre los contenidos de la consciencia o que no haya sido introducido en ella.

Why, she said, with a smile which snapped back after using as abruptly as a stretched rubber band, didn't he take a nice walk?

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group.

If a writer's aim be logical conviction, he must spare no logical pains, not merely to be understood but to escape being misunderstood; but where his object is to move by suggestion, to cause to imagine, then let him assail the soul of his reader as the wind assails an aeolian harp. If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.