Suggestive Quotes

52 Suggestive quotes by 48 unique authors

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill… — Tobe Hooper
Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design,… — Peter Davenport
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and… — Margot Livesey
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a… — Henry David Thoreau
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain,… — Robert Collier
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted;… — Blaise Pascal
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive. — Alan Hollinghurst
There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for… — Norman Thomas
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium… — Robert Doisneau
Just imagine how suggestive things are. — Unknown Author
If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines. — Steven T. Byington
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a… — H R Giger
Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-revealing top is called suggestive. What does it suggest? That there is more than what you now see, and I may let… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it… — Louis J. Mordell
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory… — George MacDonald
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are… — Carl Jung
When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the… — Carlos Gavito
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the… — Ezra Taft Benson
When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last… — Peter Singer
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even… — Mary MacLane
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them… — Henry Petroski

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