Quotes and Sayings About Subtle
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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