Quotes About Subtlety

Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.

It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.

Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Lucrezia knew well that Elisabeth had fallen under Isabella's malignant thumb, and the usually kind duchess found a mean streak that Lucrezia's sensative antennae picked up, but did not show.

Most important, perhaps there was a way to do so without browbeating or scolding, or mounting a soapbox. Perhaps he could get them without their knowing they were got. If he could only find the way.

Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is

Satan's goal is to tweak a lie so cleverly that it sounds reasonable, truthful, even right. Eve

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

that which is subtle can be more powerful.

The men compete in what they do; the women in what they make,' she said, then smiled, 'including babies, though that is a very subtle competition, and nearly everyone thinks she is the winner.

Existo. Es algo tan dulce, tan dulce, tan lento. Y leve; como si se mantuviera solo en el aire. Se mueve. Por todas partes, roces que caen y se desvanecen. Muy suave, muy suave

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.

Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play subtler, more variegated roles. Leaders of the U.S. don't have that option.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

I don't usually prefer over-the-top action.