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Quotes About Implied

I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.
~ Kim Gordon
Go buy milk,' Robert said at last. Dylan moved for Buggy's door. But if ou come around here with that old lady's money next time I might have to take it off you.' Dylan recognized this as a sort of philosophical using. He was grateful for the implied sense of pooled information. He and Robert could move forward together from this point into whatever was required.
~ Jonathan Lethem
oath. In Matthew, it says to 'swear not at all', and Quakers felt it implied a double-standard to swear to tell the truth in court when they claimed they maintained
~ Pink Dandelion
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence.
~ Daniel Kahneman
it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia
~ James Madison
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
~ Willem Dafoe
Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.
~ Gregory Benford
Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.
~ Raymond Chandler
Some, indeed, referred to Bismarck's creation as the 'Second Reich'. The use of the word implied, too, that where the First Reich had failed, in the face of French aggression, the Second had succeeded.
~ Richard J. Evans
Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.
~ Deborah Harkness
All languages are composed of dead metaphors as the soil of corpses, but English is perhaps uniquely full of metaphors of this sort, which are not dead but sleeping, and, while making a direct statement, colour it with an implied comparison.
~ William Empson
For me really good acting is about subtext.
~ Clive Owen
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
~ Ian Hamilton Finlay
Fill in?" she demanded. "For the weekend?" She winced as if each of these words were causing her pain. "I am afraid we do not handle that sort of thing." By that she implied that I had requested a stripper straight from the Casbah. So
~ Rhys Bowen
So what are the other routes? His lips curved. Did I say there were any? You implied it. Perhaps. And the next time you wish to leave, you have only to tell me, and I will show you ... and go with you. I'm quite safe in the city. But is the city safe when you are in it? That's the question.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.
~ Elie Wiesel
Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious.
~ Richelle Mead
but the phrase about the dream being over implied that something had started and had now ended. It was up to the dreamer to say it was over, no one else could say it on their behalf.
~ Deborah Levy
The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Being in control wasn't so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had.
~ Robert Jordan
The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.
~ Alain de Botton
No, I did not saysay that." Ever courteous, Klerjamboo was quick to correct the younger female. "I implied that we should try tu understand it." He gestured with his own somewhat smaller and lighter weapon. "Then we can kill it.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
~ Don DeLillo