Nod Your Head Quotes

#1. Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you don't have to

Ed Falco

#2. What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don't nod your head,
Don't try to fool me
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face!

Rumi

#3. When you give feedback, make sure to give some examples. You listen well: I know that because you ask questions, nod your head, maintain eye contact, and so on.

Assegid Habtewold

#4. Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

Samuel Shem

#5. The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

Abraham Cowley

#6. You like? she asked Slade. He gave her a head nod and she vanished behind the curtain.
That's my sister, he said, pointing at the closed curtain.
I shrugged. I'm glad you guys are so close.

Holly Hood

#7. Cal had been waiting for us at the pond. When he'd seen me, he'd given me a barely perceptible nod, which was the Cal version of waving his hands over his head and yelling, Hey, Sophie!

Rachel Hawkins

#8. I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.

French Montana

#9. When I see Kaede nod her head in Tess's direction, I rise up from my crouch. This trot's going to choose Tess. Oh, hell no. Not while I'm watching. Not if Kaede wants to live.

Marie Lu

#10. I nod, trying to get the image out of my head of Raffe dancing to some rock song. possibly buck naked.

Susan Ee

#11. Jonas, stop doing that!"
"What? Helping you?" He picked up the knife she'd dropped and handed it to her.
"No, popping out of thin air."
Jonas smiled at her then. A huge grin, and shook his head. Then gave one quick nod, turned and was gone.

Jen Meyers

#12. He greeted the twins like they were all from the same hood in Compton and gave Dex and me the head nod.

Karina Halle

#13. The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

Hillary Scott

#14. I want your hands on my head."
I nod and edge back to make room for him. "Does it calm your racing thoughts?"
He shakes his head, then takes my hand and spreads it open over his wide chest, his voice textured as he traps my gaze with his. "It calms me here.

Katy Evans

#15. Him dressed. Me naked. It's always very erotic and I can feel his temperature rising as he is about to leave for work. "Are you going to be good?" he says, and I nod my head with the first of the day's lies. "Yes, I'm always good.

Chloe Thurlow

#16. Do you know my band's song Once in a Lifetime?"
I nod my head because I know that song very well. It's one of the ones I used to listen repeatedly on my iPod.
"I wrote that song about you. About meeting you that night.

Kim Karr

#17. I nod, and taking my tea, I head into the library. It's my refuge. I dig my BlackBerry out of my purse and contemplate calling Christian. I know it's a shock for him - but he really did overreact. When does he not overreact?

E.L. James

#18. When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.

Nate Denver

#19. Mulder looked down at his partner.
'Please get better,' he said. 'I'm going to need all the help I can get.'
He might have been crazy, but he thought he saw her head give a tiny nod.
He'd have to wait and see.

Les Martin

#20. I leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes. "I'm not sure what to do next. How are you as a sounding board?"
"I can look interested and nod at appropriate moments," he said.
"Good enough," I said.

Jim Butcher

#21. Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.

Sonja Livingston

#22. There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

Bill Murray

#23. When the Council's icy fingers slide the photo of Sasha's wry smile and sleepy eyes across the table, I will nod my head like I always do. Then I will find her. I will honor the dying wish of her brother, whom I murdered, and protect her from myself. And then I will ask her out.

Daniel Jose Older

#24. Nod house turned into shout
house. In the shout house memory
said shut up. It said silence,
misery said amen, the mule's
head
meant my stubborn lungs. . .
I stood
imagining I fell back dreaming,
stuck tongue stuck in my jaw
broke
my jaw

Nathaniel Mackey

#25. Morgan and Catcher said their manly hellos - consisting of a symbolic head bob from Catcher (of the "You're in my lair now" variety) and a responding nod from Morgan (of the "You are clearly the king of this castle" variety).

Chloe Neill

#26. Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough.

G.A. Aiken

#27. Are you all right, Macy? You looked a little flushed"
Just as Macy began to nod quickly, Ghost swigged his beer and jerked his head in her direction. "She looks that way because I have my hand up her skirt.

Cherrie Lynn

#28. Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

Albert Einstein

#29. I really want to be all serious and nod my head at that, but I think you just attempted to drop knowledge by quoting a movie in which David Bowie wears tights.

Scarlett Cole

#30. Here's a helpful hint: If you nod, I can't see it. Or head shakes. Or shrugs. Or middle fingers. Or interpretive dances. When I ask you a question, you need to actually speak.

Emma Scott

#31. He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.

Lauren Oliver

#32. I step back and shout, "Can everyone shut the fuck up?"
My dad gasps and says, "Valentina, you no be rude you friends like that!"
I nod my head in agreement and try again, "Can everyone please shut the fuck up?" My dad nods his head in a that's better motion.

Belle Aurora

#33. The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

Homer

#34. I think once you start going to therapy three times a week, you've made some sort of terrible transition. I think that's the difference between "a little fucked up," in a concerned endearing tone and "fucked up" with raised eyebrows and a slow head nod.

Hannah Moskowitz

#35. Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#36. She looked up with a certain anxiety. 'But you don't think I'm too plump, do you?'
He shook his head.Like so much meat.
'You think I'm all right.' Another nod. 'In every way?'
'Perfect.' he said aloud. And inwardly, 'She thinks of herself that way. She doesn't mind being meat.

Aldous Huxley

#37. Mum turns back to face the screen, and I realise I'm still nodding. Anxiety Girl in action. She has the power to nod until she makes the connection she so desperately needs, or until her head falls off, whichever comes first.

Kirsty Eagar

#38. Tip began to nod, then shook his head. I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.

Daniel Woodrell

#39. The weeks I'd spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side - that most characteristic of Indian expressive gestures - was the equivalent of a forward nod of the head, meaning Yes.

Gregory David Roberts

#40. They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

Russell Shorto

#41. When I was young I couldn't string two words together in his presence. I would merely nod and shake my head. Though on a fortunate day, I could force out monosyllabic answers. Tonight, everything suddenly changed.

Aniesha Brahma

#42. The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name.

Ursula K. Le Guin