Quotes About Subtlety

The emotion was there but it wasn't spelled out in neon.

Once God had Moses' attention, He spoke. There are times when God wants to stab our curiosity, so He shocks us out of our routine. Routine is a subtle enemy. We fall into a mental rut, like stumbling into an open grave. And in that mind-numbing routine, we miss God's call.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

I have little interest in illustration, which lacks a kind of transcendental quality. It is too literal. I find typography more straightforward, conceptual, and appealing, with its strict geometric vocabulary. There is a bridge between typographic design and fine art, especially since typography possesses a complex subtlety. The idea, the method, and the honesty in expression are central to a designer who works with type.

Ryan was a tough, formidable son of a bitch who met things head-on when he had to. That's his weakness, Wellington told himself. He prefers to meet things head-on. He lacks subtlety. It was a common failing of the honest, and a grievous weakness in a political environment.

She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

Your art has failed. You've turned literature into a religion and it's as dead as all the rest, it's an overripe corpse and you're cutting fancy figures at the wake. It's too late for geniuses! Now we need vandals and desecrators, simple-minded demolition men to smash centuries of baroque subtlety, to bring down the temple, and thus finally, to reconcile the shame and the necessity of being an artist!

Every little movement has a meaning of its own.

Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. "This one means oops, your fly is open, sir, and if you lower the fan a little and look at someone over the top of it, it means wow, I'd like to marry you. But if you do it the other way around, it means ha ha, we are now at war with Spain.

When one spends a great deal of the formative and imaginative period of his life alone in the woods, the ability to note and track detail becomes highly developed. He becomes attuned to the subtlest changes in his surroundings, and it's easy to imagine that there might be hidden, immaterial processes beneath the surface.

Cea mai buna cale de a manipula oamenii este sa le spui ce vor sa auda.

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Love isn't always the thing that fills up the room, or your heart. Sometimes, it's what sneaks into the in-between spaces.

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

she ducked from her doorway and pressed on, neither too fast nor too slow, soft bootheels silent on the dewy cobbles, her unexceptional hood drawn down to an inconspicuous degree, the very image of a person with just the average amount to hide.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

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