The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On Christmas morning when I was a child, my mother would leave a book wrapped at the foot of the bed, which… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave… — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage,… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
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