Suggestive Quotes

52 Suggestive quotes by 48 unique authors

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
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
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
You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality. — Frederick Lenz
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
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
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
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
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. — William James
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
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
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
[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
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
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. — Virginia Woolf
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and… — Maureen Johnson
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Unknown Author
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken.… — Ernst Haas
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. — Hamish Bowles
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
We steer completely clear of anything suggestive. — Bill Haley
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump… — Bruce Jackson
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Unknown Author
The sooner mankind realizes that this universe, this energy, is thought suggestive, the sooner mankind will advance. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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