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“We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.”

People Needs Trying Issues Campaigns Presidential Precise Hints Presidential Campaign

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.”

People Should Wells Kind Said Sports Party Boys Smart Mouths Standing Very Good Fifty Grades Looking Good Hints Very Smart Eighth Grade Graduation Party

Author:Terry Bozzio

“The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy Giuliani. Over a lifetime of excellent service, there's never been a hint of corruption in his behavior but everybody investigates him.”

Levels Behavior Highest Lifetime Clinton Corruption Excellent Hints Rudy Excellent Service

Author:Jackie Mason

“If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.”

Ifs Way Philosophy Seems Found Space Existence Overcoming Just One Quests Hints Linear

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can't support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.”

Ifs Christian Church Poverty Support Direct Quitting Welcome Missionary Mail Hints Reservations You Re Welcome Solicitation

Author:Russell Means

“Be a good example and hope the partner gets the hint. Any partner who would attempt to sabotage my fitness regime I would leave... wrong partner.”

Example Partners Regimes Hints Good Examples Sabotage

Author:Jane Fonda

“In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.”

Firsts Faces Cutting Illusion Inspired Disappointment Editing Masterpiece Hints Edits

Author:Daniel Espinosa

“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.”

Broken Get Up Fallen Hints

Author: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 of withdrawal, nothing.”

I Can Nine Japan Pot Marijuana Hints Withdrawal Busted

Author: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!'”

Moments Common Trouble Response Likes Hints

Author: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.”

Humans Facts Stories Perfection Fundamentals Storytelling Imperfection Hints Perfection And Imperfection Human Imperfection

Author: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 of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.”

Firsts Littles Art I Can Would Be Three Games Bits Reader Pages Ears Intelligent Assuming Definitions Dropping Hints

Author:George Saunders

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

Giving Death Philosophical Retirement Resurrection Farewell Parting Hints Reunion Jesus Resurrection Easter Resurrection

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“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 at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.”

Thinking Way Feels Feelings Home Father Heaven Doors Fronts Comfortable Prepared Description Our Father Hints Arriving Front Doors

Author:Charles Stanley

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

Oil Sensitive Expansion Hints Contractions

Author: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 to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.”

Ifs Firsts Gone Increase Threat Episodes Inflation Hints Hyperinflation

Author: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 you take it we men are a little breed.”

Men Kind Littles Hours Brother Shame Be Kind Hints Chuckles

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“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 sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'”

Thinking Littles Stories Listening Despair Standing Crowds Tiny Malice Hints

Author: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. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”

Want Giving Social Audience Too Much Scene Theater Theatre Suggestions Hints

Author:Orson Welles

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

Knows Want Inspirational Children Stills Felt Psychology Childhood Hints Memories Dreams Reflections Child Psychology

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.”

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.”

Character Eye Passion Found Natural Pride Asking Curiosity Satisfied Familiar Artistic Unconscious Unusual Receiving Hints Her Beauty Ennui Unconventional Vivacity

Book:A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”

Sin Greater Blessing Add Affliction Hints Deliverance

Book:The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

“There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.”

Stills Dark Morning Sky Color Swimming Sunrise Ink Hints Rims Goldfish

Author:Truman Capote

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

Wanted Bits Forget Pieces Woods Surface Moving On Floating Break Up Emerging Hints Stay Strong Shipwreck

Book:Just Listen: A Novel

Source: Just Listen: A Novel

“Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”

Knows Kind Different Helping Feelings Havens Possibility Fortunate Bitterness Different Kinds Sweetness Hints Cheated

Author:Richard Russo

“Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.”

Spiritual Failure Valuable Calamity Hints Spurs

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”

Knows Lines Missing Fine Hints Fine Lines

Author:Louise Rennison

“As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.”

Made Stills Beautiful Found Silence Week Sea Rocks Becoming Summer Lays Wave Surface Weather Assumption Hints Misplaced Sandals Credence Seashore Piers

Book:The Story of Lucy Gault

Source: The Story of Lucy Gault

“They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?”

Ifs Thinking Giving I Can Stuff Give Me Bubbles Salt Baths Soap Hints Lumps Bubble Bath

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.”

Firsts Book Sweet Pages Hints Inviting

Book:Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”

Ifs Giving Information Hints Howl's Moving Castle Calcifer

Book:Wizard's Castle

Source: Wizard's Castle

“The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.”

Voice Laughing Vampire Staring Hints Save Me

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.”

Ifs Made Hard Reality Lost Wish Loses Complaining Flats Unjust Hints Doubted Lack Of Faith

Book:Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel

Source: Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel

“Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)”

Trying Enough Dream Reality House Behinds Brain Strange Corners Physics Backgrounds Tales Tension Witch Quantum Gothic Hints Quantum Physics Folklore Calculus Chimneys

Book:Dreams in the Witch House

Source: Dreams in the Witch House

“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Littles Persons Doe Stills Feelings Spiritual Voice Responsibility Accepting Cost Silent Oneself Maturity Mature Hints Small Voice

Author:Rajneesh

“I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”

“What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Goal Words Of Wisdom Waste Supposed To Be Wasting Time Disgusting Polite Implications Hints Campus

Author:J. D. Salinger

“When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.”

Men Looks Matter States Sound Creativity Shapes Discovery All Things Innovation Hints Describing Creative Imagination

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“I'm gonna barf," I whispered to Fang,wiping my sweaty hands on my jeans. You'll be fine," he whipered back. "You always are. I'm gonna die," I moaned. You can't die," he said a hint of a smile in his voice."You're the indesructible Max.”

Said Hands Dies Voice Fine Jeans Hints Max Fangs

Author:James Patterson

“He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.”

Soul Hints Politeness Aversion

Book:Fathers and Sons

Source: Fathers and Sons

“I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?”

Want Feels Wells Heart Strong Blood Comfort Red Blue Tone Colour Veins Hints Hue Magnolias

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.”

Knows Writing Firsts Book Girl Break Assuming Guides Cooks Eggs Shells Hints Beginners Cookery

Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Molly screamed. "You don't know what you're talking about!”

Knows Want Giving Firsts Said Matter Father Names Talking Shut Up Rhyme Hints Pads Arches Chatter Fins Blisters Surnames

Author:Frank Beddor

“Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will. Halt raised an eyebrow. "At least I found a use for that damned helmet," he said, and the smile disappeared from Erak's face. "Yes. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell Gordoff about that," he said. "He made me promise I'd look after that helmet. It's his favorite-a real family heirloom." "Well it certainly has a lived in feel to it now," Halt told him, and Will noticed there was a hint of malicious pleasure in his eye.”

Feels Wells Looks Made Said Real Use Eye Faces Found Pleasure Masters Promise Laughter Green Raised Not Sure His Eyes Shade Eyebrows Hints Halt Cloaks Helmet Malicious Heirlooms Real Family

Author:John Flanagan

“King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was set and determined. Halt and Crowley's faces were inscrutable in the shadows of their cowls. The two younger men were both a little wide-eyed- obviously uncomfortable at the emotions that had been bared in the room. There was still a hint of admiration in Will's eyes, however, as he continued to stare at the Baron. Rodney was nodding in agreement with Arald's statements, while Gilan made a show of studying his nails.”

“Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.”

People Thinking Way Mean Too Much Grace One Thing Poet Goes On Instinct Metaphor Hints Parables Diffidence

Author:Robert Frost

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

Mind Persons Soul Body Might Spirit Greater Figures Promise One Day Stronger Hints

Author:Jodi Picoult

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