Suggestive Quotes
More Suggestive Quotes
I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.
— "Tributes". People. March 15, 1999. Retrieved on 2008-12-25.
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Volume I, Chapter XXI.
"Som-Som would later learn that the girl's name was Book. Ambiguous and suggestive sentences swirled out from the maroon bud of her nipple. Verses of elegant and cryptic passion followed the orbit of her left eye. Her fingers dripped with poetry."
alan moore— Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard, #1, January 2005
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne , and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
epictetus— Note: Salomon de Tultie was a pseudonym adopted by Pascal as the author of the Provincial Letters.Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 18 (1669)
There is, I think, no more nutritive or suggestive truth... than that of the perfect dependence of the "moral" sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question comes back thus, obviously, to the kind and the degree of the artist's prime sensibility, which is the soil out of which his subject springs.
Henry James— The Portrait of a Lady
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Volume I, Chapter XXI.
As a means of reinforcing the social power of language, ideas became more superfluous the more that power increased, and the language of science put an end to them altogether. Conscious justification lacked the suggestive power which springs from dread of the fetish.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 17 (Sourced)
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
Alfred North Whitehead— Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
Henry David Thoreau— Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne , and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
— Note: Salomon de Tultie was a pseudonym adopted by Pascal as the author of the Provincial Letters.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 18 (1669)
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
Alfred North Whitehead— Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
carl jung— p. 25 (Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960))
