Subtle quotes
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
-- Alice Munro -
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time
-- Amit Abraham -
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
-- Ansel Adams -
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
-- Anthony Lane -
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
-- Beatrix Farrand -
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
-- Billy Wilder -
Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
-- Brian Tracy -
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
-- Carl Sagan -
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
-- Carl Sagan -
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I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
-- D. J. Enright -
One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.
-- Dan Winters -
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis -
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My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
-- Dawn French -
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
-- Dick Cavett -
In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
-- Donna Tartt -
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
-- Edward Tufte -
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Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith -
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
-- George Eliot -
When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.
-- Harvey Dunn -
Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
-- Holbrook Jackson -
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
-- James A. Baldwin -
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
-- Jim Hodges -
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.
-- John F. Carlson -
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
-- John Milton -
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Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
-- John Tillotson -
Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.
-- Laini Taylor -
The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch.
-- Leonard Maltin -
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A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.
-- Lord Acton -
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
-- Louis Pasteur -
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
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Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.
-- Marc Cooper -
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.
-- Margaret Hamilton -
Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
-- Michael Schudson -
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.
-- Michel de Certeau -
I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.
-- Mike Epps -
The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.
-- Nancy Gibbs -
Men like women who know how to be subtle.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
-- Norah Jones -
Physics is simple, but subtle.
-- Paul Ehrenfest -
Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.
-- Paul Mazursky -
Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
-- Paul Muni -
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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
-- Paul Tournier -
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
-- Philip Pearlstein -
I was the most subtle person in the world.
-- Quincy Jones -
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
-- Randy Harrison -
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I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
-- Roberto Bolano -
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
-- Sean Durkin -
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.
-- Steve Morse -
The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
-- Suzanne Curchod -
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
-- Tammy Bruce -
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
-- Tanith Lee -
Some people are more expressive in worship. Some people more subtle and it's all good
-- Tim Hawkins -
I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.
-- Tony Dungy -
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
-- Virginia Woolf -
The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois -
Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.
-- Dennis L. McKiernan -
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The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones -
The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
-- George Leonard -
I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.
-- Marc Guggenheim -
The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.
-- Robert Duncan McNeill -
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Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.
-- Thinley Norbu -
No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.
-- William of Conches -
If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.
-- Dan Mangan -
One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.
-- Dan Winters -
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As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.
-- Rodney Yee -
The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.
-- Rosita Forbes
