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
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.
Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them. " Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass
Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind. " I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?
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.
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. " "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.
Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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.
People run away, pull their hair, go off in different directions, nodding their heads and going, "Oh, God. " I am slightly disheveled, I think. I'm really pleased that I am, because otherwise I could be in a really, really dull and boring place now, as a musician, at least.
I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.
If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
