Hints Quotes

256 quotes by 229 authors

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. — Luci Shaw
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,… — C.S. Lewis
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… — C.S. Lewis
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't… — Robert Frost
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city,… — Richard Le Gallienne
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making… — Jeff Greenfield
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. — Mason Cooley
We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again. — Amy Lee
I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint… — Paul McCartney
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!' — Joyce Meyer
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. — Ben Okri
For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition… — George Saunders
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving… — Charles Stanley
The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply. — James Surowiecki
Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely… — James Surowiecki
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I… — Henry David Thoreau
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that… — Ayelet Waldman
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves.… — Orson Welles

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