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I have not slept one wink.

William Shakespeare

Nobody is there to protect the cop. I think the prosecutor should also do that. In the past, it was 'Wink, wink, nod, nod; here's what I want you to look at.' But that's why states have moved away from grand juries. You should also protect the people you're trying to indict.

Joe Morales

It's not an easy character to grasp in this day and age, ... But Harrison is a very specific and interesting actor. Within his performance, he has a way of winking at the audience and letting them know he is manipulating the old captain.

Sheldon Epps

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?

Monty Python

Wink asked me once to put together a board game or something like that which followed our rules, ... It probably would have made a few bucks if we could have copyrighted or patented it.

George Ross

This was not a police courtesy that was done with a wink and a nod ... because of some sort of brotherhood. We discovered a hole in the system. Hopefully, that hole will be addressed.

Ronald Malfi

Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.

Antonio Banderas

If they go so far as to make some sort of express deal, then all of a sudden it can become criminal. There's a lot of nodding and winking and that's why I say the entire campaign finance system we have is in some way a sort of organized, legalized bribery.

Randall Eliason

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Angela Carter

The Muppets bring a wink and a smile to it. It's pizza after all - it's not something that serious. It's about fun and enjoyment.

Tom James

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

William Randolph Hearst

I didn't sleep a wink. All I remember is I was in the top bunk and I was afraid of rolling out.

Olive Benson

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Will Adams

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

Fletcher Knebel

While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its way down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.

L. Frank Baum

There were no wink-and-a-nod agreements in the backroom. The fact that they chose to plead guilty just shows the strength of the government's case.

David Boyd

It will be 'Roseanne'-ish in nature, a real woman raising two kids. There won't be any winking at the camera, no double-entendre jokes.

David Richardson

Dale could, in the blink of an eye, make you so mad, you wanted to go over and sock him. Then he'd give you that wink and he'd give you that smile, and it was all right. He was larger than life. He was such a legend in the sport and such an icon in the sport, his legacy will never completely die.

Bill C. Davis

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

George Jean Nathan

His fatal flaw is that he hasn't been willing to destroy the old machine to build the new Chicago. The people down below still see this as a wink and a nod. They still think you get a promotion at City Hall if you work your precinct; they still think you get a contract if you have inside connections.

Dick Simpson

Back then, all the hotel workers were black. They all came to see us. We didn't sleep a wink the whole night.

C.r. Roberts

There's a lot of winking and nodding here. This is his way of capturing the middle ground.

Joseph Alpher

WINK called me up with the potential to do some freelance work and I was excited about it. I was nervous, but once I got up in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. The difficult part is in the preparation of the product, learning all the machines and the way (WINK) works things.

Jim Clarke

FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they.

Ambrose Bierce

Our intention was to give a nod and a wink to people like Giorgio Moroder and the Bee Gees. Stuart and I didn't want to remake the past, but make it into something new.

Singer Madonna

Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Jack Kerouac

There are a few marquee names that everyone will recognize. Some worked with a wink and a nod with their governments. But the corruption was so widespread that literally thousands of companies were caught up in it. To play, you needed to pay.

Mike Holtzman

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

John Marston

The leadership of both Houses of Congress needs a serious wake up call. You can't preach morality and family values while you wink and look the other way when one your own breaks the law.

George Harleigh

The dancers' interaction with the band provides the wink and nod.

Ivan Kane

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.

Reggie White

He knows how to say the right words and give a little smile and wink and get his own way. He's a bit of a rogue. Brad Pitt's character in 'Thelma and Louise' is really what I see Vegas being like. He's not what I would call an evil person but Vegas would have probably walked away with the money just like Brad Pitt did in that movie.

Karl Kesel

It's based on the look and feel of a classic American diner, but with an Old Navy spin on it, a wink and a twist.

Susan Wayne