Suggestive Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of…
— Mary Douglas
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I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.
— Olivia Newton-John
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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,…
— J. D. McClatchy
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You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.
— Frederick Lenz
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I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final…
— M H Abrams
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from…
— J. G. Holland
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
— Alfred North Whitehead
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
— William James
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From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a…
— Charles de Lint
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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs.…
— Agatha Christie
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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.…
— Victor Pelevin
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[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our…
— Sam Harris
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Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that…
— Tom Robbins
Who Wrote These Suggestive Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 52 Suggestive Quotes, led by these top contributors: