Top 100 Hint Quotes
#1. Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.
Peter C Bunnell
#2. This I consider to be one of the essences of life. It never warns us if something bad is going to happen and it never spoils the surprise by giving a hint about the happy moments that we are going to come across soon.
Sreehari
#3. He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreasonable presents, and show up uninvited at the most embarrassing times. Then he's going to stick with you, refusing to take the hint when you don't answer his calls.
Sara Miles
#4. I bypass car-size lemonade bushes, zingy with a hint of gym socks, toward a patch of lichen flourishing at the base of a eucalyptus. I put my nose right up to the musty scent, even though it smells like raccoon urine. Aromateurs are trained from an early age to view each scent with objectivity. "You
Stacey Lee
#5. I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.
Kresley Cole
#6. A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the laws.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#7. Ah yes, freedom! Even a hint of it, just the faintest hope of it, is enough to make one's spirit soar, don't you think?
Anton Chekhov
#8. She knew only one hint left by Rob: Enigma. There had been a few genius mathematicians who invented much more than a computing-like device, they figured out one of the most important intelligence formulas. Rob had programmed it in the Mold language.
J.M.K. Walkow
#9. But the more I hint I want to finish it, the tighter she holds on. It's like going out with the giant squid.
J.K. Rowling
#10. It's Too Late Now, You Fat Fuck [10w]
Death is nature's subtle hint
to cut down on carbs.
Beryl Dov
#11. You don't look so special"
"You're looking in the wrong place," he replied with a hint of a smile. "Look into my eyes.
Kady Cross
#12. Should you dare to ride this dreadful beast, you would awaken later as if from a deep sleep, with some of these printed scraps clutched in your hands. Fragments would hint at ideal books, impossible books, books that you have always longed to read.
Thomas Wharton
#13. The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.
James Surowiecki
#14. So I have to wish for the end of the world as I know it?" Xander asks, another hint of his old laugh in his voice. "Not the end of the world. For the beginning of a better one,
Ally Condie
#15. Soon as you ask someone how they are and they give you a hint of mediocrity or less, say, 'The Universe wants you to know that I love you.
Ace Antonio Hall
#16. 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
#17. Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.
Janet Fitch
#18. A hint of annoyance hardened Sicarius's dark eyes, and Books imagined him thinking, I can't leave for five minutes without you getting into trouble ...
Lindsay Buroker
#19. The young desired to be free of the adults, and at the same time were prepared to resent any hint that the adults might desire to be free of them.
A.S. Byatt
#20. How strange it was to have the power to cause others to feel something she herself did not feel; and then catch the hint of it in their collective minds, and begin to feel it herself.
Kristin Cashore
#21. Sane men will often take a hint," Mr. Kenopensky said. "Crazy men rarely do.
Stephen King
#22. If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.
Diana Wynne Jones
#23. He was the soul of politeness to everyone
to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
Ivan Turgenev
#24. In his face, I see the whole of my life. I see a baby who came to me long after I'd given up ... and a hint of the beauty I once had. I see ... my life in his eyes.
Kristin Hannah
#25. There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.
Toni Morrison
#26. Lauga had asked Margret whether she thought there would be an outward hint of the evil that drives a person to murder. Evidence oft he Devil: a herelip, a snaggletooth, a birthmark; some small outer defect. There must be a warning, some way of knowing, so that honest people could keep their guard.
Hannah Kent
#27. A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice.
And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It's left me rearranged inside, and I don't have a map.
Tessa Dare
#28. We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#30. Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way.
Martin Amis
#31. Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. Hey, would you look at that shit?"
I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle.
"Clear out!" I barked.
They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.
Ilona Andrews
#33. The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Criss Jami
#34. Your guardian angel's a man?" She gave me a little wry look, and for the first time in days, I saw a hint of the old Lola coming back to life. "Of course. I like to imagine he's hopelessly in love with me, but we can never be together because it's against the rules.
L. H. Cosway
#35. Because even though I was afraid to admit I, I felt like a door had been cracked in my soul. It was a tiny opening, to be sure, but there was the hint of something new in the air, something unexpected.
Glenn Beck
#36. Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
Robert Frost
#37. How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
"How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
"You were asleep, too?"
"Until you began drooling on my shoulder.
Sarah J. Maas
#38. 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.
James Patterson
#39. It's so fucking cheap when people say I love you. It's a name to stick on a surge of hormones, with a little hint of loyalty thrown in. I've never liked saying it. Here's what I say: We're together, now and until the end. You have everything I need to be happy. You make me feel right.
Joe Hill
#40. Also, just before the shift started tonight, I had walked to the drugstore across the street [ ... ] and used one of their perfume testers. Nothing too obvious or flowery, just a body spray with a hint of musk that said you admired your captor.
Jennifer Echols
#41. The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".
Peter Leithart
#42. The dawn came up entirely gold, with no hint of pink or purple. The sky was a rinsed blue, like an old shirt washed a thousand times.
Lee Child
#43. She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie
Liane Moriarty
#44. If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
Randy Weber
#45. Hard at work on a new one, huh? What's this one called?"
"A Feast of Souls."
"A Feast of Souls," Ben said. "Classy." I slowed, unsure whether or not I had detected a hint of sarcasm in my neighbor's tone.
James Newman
#46. Mircea leaned over to refill my wineglass, and a section of his bare chest showed under the robe, along with a hint of dusky nipple. It's a good thing I'm too stuffed to move, I thought hazily. I would so have jumped that.
Karen Chance
#47. Maybe I could come over to your house again afterward and check on you? I raised my eyebrows to hint hint what I meant by checking on him.
With any luck his father would be as uninvolved and dismissive as he'd been tonight.Nick needed more yoga in his bedroom, and possibly a physical.
Jennifer Echols
#48. There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up
before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.
Robin Brande
#49. There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to
do.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#50. We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.
Martha Gellhorn
#51. I'd developed a style in dealing with foreigners that won their trust quickly. That style was two parts showman, two parts flatterer, and one part philanderer, combined with a hint of mischief, a sniff of condescension, and a pinch of contempt.
Gregory David Roberts
#52. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#53. Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth
The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.
Piet Hein
#54. I fear I must warn you, if that ladle finds it's way to her lips, we will be revisited by my lunch," Ichabod stated without the slightest hint of a jest. "And mine will provide it company," Rip seconded.
Stacey Rourke
#55. Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Luke The Evangelist
#56. 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.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." "Francisco,
Ayn Rand
#58. This was my first hint that morality often involves tension within the group linked to competition between different groups.
Jonathan Haidt
#59. Can you use these on me? Right now, please ... Fuck yes. I'm always amazed at how quickly my cock can jump to attention at the hint of any sexual impropriety.
Ella Dominguez
#60. Ranel had said that the murderer wore a ring with a red gemstone. Looking at Akkarin's hands, she was almost disappointed to see they were bare. Not even a mark to hint that a ring might have been worn regularly. His fingers were long and elegant, yet masculine ...
Trudi Canavan
#61. We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.
Vadim Babenko
#62. A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page
#63. There is no hint here that preaching is thought of primarily as self-expression
of subjective experience or feeling-disclosure or autobiography or 'telling one's story' so as to neglect Scripture."275 It is the Word that is to be preached.
Ben Witherington III
#64. 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.
George Saunders
#65. There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.
Angela Carter
#66. Some women," Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, "get
under a man's skin until digging them out makes you bleed.
Nalini Singh
#67. ...The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.
C.S. Lewis
#68. In her also I found what I liked best - an unfailing, kindly welcome without a hint of sentimentality, unruffled good sense, the unobtrusive talent for making all things at all times as cheerful and comfortable as circumstances allowed.
C.S. Lewis
#69. I am so much more than the hint of rage you discern hiding behind my restraint. I am so much more than the words I use. I am bottled heartache and the lies I tell myself when everyone else is asleep.
Nessie Q.
#70. Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty.
David Grann
#71. Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.
Jennifer McMahon
#72. Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.
Mark Lawrence
#73. I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.
Adina Porter
#74. It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.
Nathanael West
#75. Hello, Jean-Claude," I said. "Greetings, ma petite," he said. His voice was like fur, rich, soft, vaguely obscene, as if just talking to him was something dirty. Maybe it was. "Don't call me ma petite," I said. He smiled slightly, not a hint of fang. "As you like.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#76. But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.
Walter Terry
#77. But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbors. We judge from our own desires, and our neighbors themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
George Eliot
#78. As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart ...
John Burnside
#79. In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.
Audre Lorde
#80. This excited you, doesn't it? Not knowing where we're going next. What's going to happen. Who might turn that corner. Not knowing if I'm going to kiss you or fuck you. I'll give you a hint, Angie. I'm going to do both.
J. Kenner
#81. He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.
Dan Brown
#82. 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.
Louise Rennison
#83. Griffin's narrow, crooked smile held a hint of derision. "You are a romantic, then."
"No. Not at all. But I hold out hope that others might be.
Jo Goodman
#84. One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
H.P. Lovecraft
#86. Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government. It is being compiled on big server farms and it's being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I are up to no good.
Brad Thor
#87. No flicker of amusement, no hint of fear. The woman could give Rowan a run for his money for sheer iciness.
Sarah J. Maas
#88. Old beggars in stories are never really old beggars," Simmon said with a hint of accusation in his voice. "They're always a witch or a prince or an angel or something."
"In real life old beggars are almost always old beggars," I pointed out.
Patrick Rothfuss
#90. His mouth moved up to my ear. "Let me stroke you, swear to the gods, sweets, you loosen up just a hint, I'll make you come so hard you'll think you've exploded.
Kristen Ashley
#91. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
T. S. Eliot
#92. Oh, God, oh, God. A sense of humor. She'd thought the hardly-even-a-hint she'd caught of it a while back had been a one-off thing, but that was a joke he'd just made. An honest-to-God joke! She wanted to have his baby.
Susan Andersen
#93. I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.
Sarah Palin
#94. 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
#95. There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils.
Lisa Graff
#96. We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.
Ann Brashares
#97. He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#98. Levelling my stare at him I drop a hint like a penny into a well, You mentioned you were tied up. Win, you should have reserved that privilege for me.
Poppet
#99. Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.
Mario Puzo
#100. It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.
Edward Abbey
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