Top 172 Hints Quotes & Sayings

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

So many tend to brand the Internet as the downfall of youth, but 'Ready Player One' hints that it's more complicated than that.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

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.

The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

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.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.

Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come if he is elected.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.

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

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist.

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Honestly, it's a sad truth, but whenever a show is about to go off air, you start getting hints because the work environment and quality changes.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

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

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.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

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

To me, I love being able to see some of John C. Reilly's face in Ralph, and some of Sarah Silverman in Vanellope. That there are hints of them there. In the broad strokes, they are there.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

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

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

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.