#wink

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink. ↗

— Peter Welch

#delay #derail #often #too #washington

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#became #better #character #choice #conscious

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #book #critics #cultural #dance

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#clear #common #pulse #remarkably #seemed

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. ↗

— Sai Baba

#glory #god #into #look #message

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#band #cannot #christ #dislike #him

Wink and shut their apprehensions up. ↗

— John Marston

#shut #their #up #wink

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#always #audience #charm #i #leading

Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle. ↗

— Victor Mature

#place #stars #twinkle #until #where

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. ↗

— Herman Melville

#future #governor #laws #most #must