Quotes About Subtlety

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

Ever since then, I've done what I could to be pleasant and quiet, making myself as small and unseen as possible.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Rudolf Diels, the young chief of the Gestapo. He moved with ease and confidence, yet unlike Putzi Hanfstaengl, who invaded a room, he entered unobtrusively, seeping in like a malevolent fog.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

There was so much to write. He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would.

With her mouth closed she was a rather pretty girl.

The deeper and subtler effects of the economic dimension of globalization intensify the politics of insecurity.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

this was how women fought. With civilized words carrying poison.

I dislike cloyingly sweet desserts - sweet is not a flavor - so I suggest dialing back the sweetness and focusing on what the dessert is about, whether it is a ripe fruit, chocolate, etc.

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

Remember, its all about you and the dress. Nothing more, so keep the accessories very discreet.

It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.

By the time he had reached adolescence, he had become adept at manipulating people and getting them to do what he wanted. A few well-placed words in the right ears could be twice as damaging as an equal number of bullets, and much harder to trace back to their source.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

An image system is a strategy of motifs, a category of imagery embedded in the film that repeats in sight and sound from beginning to end with persistence and great variation, but with equally great subtlety, as a subliminal communication to increase the depth and complexity of aesthetic emotion.

24. It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, for the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

The idea was not to compete, at least not too openly.

He was now a master puppeteer, adroitly manipulating his marionettes, with the strings artfully concealed.