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Nodding the head does not row the boat -- Irish Sayings
Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run. -- Amy Lowell
Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot. -- Trudi Canavan
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. -- Robert Burns
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. -- William Shakespeare
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. -- E. W. Howe
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. -- William Powell
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. -- Johannes Tauler
The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. -- Kenneth Williams
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
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! -- Walt Whitman
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. -- William Shakespeare
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
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. -- Joseph Addison
Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank. -- John Green
I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right. -- Daniel Handler
When you are old and gray 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. -- William Butler Yeats
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent. -- Fran Lebowitz
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. -- Robert Plant
Yeah, I screamed in [Daniel Radcliffe's] face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I'm in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I'm towering over him, saying, 'I love Harry Potter!' His security people were nodding to each other - should we go? -- Jennifer Lawrence
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. -- Joan Didion
Steve Carell, we've been nodding at each other for years now. -- Jane Lynch
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. -- John Milton
In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other -- Yosa Buson
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. -- Albert Einstein
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man -- Edgar Watson Howe
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. -- Lauren DeStefano
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn."[Brigs of Ayr] -- Robert Burns
Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no. -- Jethro Tull
Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding. -- John Waters
If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket. -- Quentin Crisp
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. -- Siegfried Sassoon
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. -- Kenneth Williams
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. -- Emma Donoghue
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. -- Sarah Dessen
See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! -- Alexander Pope
Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?" "Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding. "What was she doing here?" Max asked. "Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end. -- Jim Butcher
You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires -- Kathy Reichs
With practice, INTJs become skilled at nodding and making responsive noises at appropriate times,while internally wondering whether dolphins have language or thinking about how Star Wars breaksthe laws of physics. -- Anna Moss
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
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. -- D. H. Lawrence
Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police. -- John Green
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. -- Alexander Pope
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. -- Tom Stoppard
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. -- Ron Fournier
Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food. -- Ezekiel Emanuel

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