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  • I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

    Men   Bird   Answers  
    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing
  • Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

    Hero   Mean   Men  
    Song: Too Many Too
  • We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jun 24, 2011
  • He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

    FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012
  • Steve Carell, we’ve been nodding at each other for years now.

    Years   Nodding  
  • Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

  • I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

    Summer   Dream   Sweet  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249
  • My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

  • Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

    Summer   Stars   Night  
    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.27, NYU Press
  • How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

    Nodding   Fields   Faces  
    Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.24, Faber & Faber
  • Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie from a thousand years ago." "Uh...Betsy..." "Don't say it." You know how you don't know how stupid something is until you hear yourself say it? That happened to me a lot.

    Stupid   Thinking   Years  
  • You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

    Home   Leader   Political  
  • There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

    Balance   Wish   Needs  
    Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.189, Macmillan
  • Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited

    Adults   Nodding   Rooms  
  • We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

    Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library
  • The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

    Nodding   Horror   Shady  
    John Milton (2006). “L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or had been married to Vera Nabokov, or had a housespouse of even minimal abilities, a literary life would be easier to bring about. (In my mind I see all your male readers rolling their eyes. But your female ones - what is that? Are they nodding in agreement? Are their fists in the air?)

    Writing   Eye   Air  
  • The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.

  • Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

    Kindness   Men   Dull  
    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.160
  • Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

    Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

    Marriage   Stars   Cosmos  
    D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press
  • You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says, nodding at Christina. "Why?" she asks. I shrug. "Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." She smirks. "No wonder you left." "Yeah," I say,rolling my eyes. "It was just because of the food." The corner of Four's mouth twitches.

    Eye   Self   Rolling  
  • Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

    Nodding   Matter   Shakes  
    Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.94, Pan Macmillan
  • Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

    Art   Men   Rocks  
  • If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

    Source: davidbenson.webs.com
  • You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50

    Buddhist   Class   Lakes  
    John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin
  • One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

    Love   Men   Bending Down  
    'When You Are Old'
  • Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

    John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.219
  • We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

    Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin
  • When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

    Dream   Stars   Book  
    "When You Are Old" l. 1 (1893)
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