A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.
I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.
I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive. ' Another nod.
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.
I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does. " Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid. " So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.
But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.
He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.
They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.
I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.
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.
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.