Robert Frost
Poet
"Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."
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Hints
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Terry Pratchett
Author
"His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47."
Billie Jean King
Tennis Player
"Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed."
Agnes Martin
Artist
"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it."
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"Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval."
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"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."
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"Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home."
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"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."
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"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
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"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."
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"A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!"
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"If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth."
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"Shots came, I don't know where they was sent from. Probably some bad hoes I'm bouta take the hint from"
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"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."
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"Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion."
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"The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint."
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"Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen."
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"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled."
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"Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger."
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"I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire."
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"Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises."
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"Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
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"The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys."
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"A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future."
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