Quotes About Implied

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied.

Although we can store functions in dictionaries, too, using them to process implied instances is nowhere near as natural and structured as it is in classes.

But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what is stated and what is implied, is a place in which I have always found myself. I'm really not a liar, I just learned very early on that those of us deprived of history sometimes need to turn to mythology to feel complete, to belong.(p10)

The purpose of questions in the larger sale is to uncover Implied Needs and to develop them into Explicit Needs.

The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or "conversations.

One could prefix the words deranged lunatic insists to any headline, and only increase its accuracy. It's practically implied, and the reading public would hardly read the little phrase as a disclaimer these days.

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.

A librarian!' said Celia. Her tone implied that prostitution might have been preferable.