Quotes About Subtlety

His words had the ring of formality, and he knew she understood them for what they were. The sideways twitch of her head told him as much, and the slight smile that touched the corners of her eyes but didn't curve her lips.

I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.

The corner of her mouth quirked; it wasn't humour.

She let her hand slide across the tailored dark fabric of his trousers before leaning back, curling against the arm of the loveseat in a manner that would have horrified her tutors.

I believe in the oblique, the indirect approach and I keep my feelings to myself.

The veil of the hindrances to knowledge has three aspects in terms of progressively subtler concepts. The first is holding on to true existence (Tib. bden par 'dzin pa), the second is holding on to characteristics (Tib. mtshan mar 'dzin pa), and the third is the appearance of duality (Tib. gnyis snang).

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

There is a cunning, which we in England call, the turning of the cat in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. And to say truth, it is not easy, when such a matter passed between two, to make it appear from which of them it first moved and began.

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

I accidentally make innuendos all the time without even realising. I'm middle-aged, in that sense.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.

Grey is one of my favorite colors.

I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

Los trucos más brillantes han sido siempre los más sencillos. Firmin Richard.

so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.

He could perhaps have given no precise form to the reasons that determined this conclusion, but it is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.

Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.