Quotes for All
Few novels truly deserve the description ‘rollicking’ in the way Mary Novik’s Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail … Read more
That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they’re blue in the face and not get it. Eugene H. Peterson
A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat! Eric Idle
Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more? Eric Idle
It was his subconscious which told him this – that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. Douglas Adams
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his … Read more
If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I’m going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction. DJ Shadow
Destiny is a tower of cards – nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116 Darren Shan
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world’s longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don’t use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. Dan Buettner
When you’re looking for a house, you’re not looking for a house that’s perfect. You’re looking for that house to have character. And I think it’s those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That’s what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You … Read more