Quotes of: Hints Keyword

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 intended.

Robert Frost

Masters' hints are commands.

Italian

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Robert Frost

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

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousa...

War and Peace

My favorite is Steamfresh broccoli with just a hint of garlic salt.

Jennette McCurdy

But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.

Walter Terry

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

The doc showed no hint he had trouble taking lives.

Midnight

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Sitwell

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Her name was Rebecca. Or at least that’s what her nametag said. She was making my coffee at Starbucks as I admired how her green Starbucks apron matched her bright green eyes. She had hair the color of coffee with a hint of cream in it. I was tryin...

Gosh, I probably shouldn't publish this.

I hid my grief well. (Hint: it’s in the basement) 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

James Surowiecki

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Mason Cooley

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.

Finnegans Wake

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Killosophy

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

Mark Jacobs

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

Esther Williams

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Martin Filler