Quotes About Subtlety

Every day, before our eyes, a moral phenomenon of amazing profundity takes place which is, nevertheless, so simple as never to be noticed.

Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.

There is no hint too broad for a woman of little tact.

Everything is always painted as black or white. Life is not like that, of course. Life is about all the shades of grey in between. I

rills ran deeper—so that if you could compare them to ice cream, it was more to the sort so hard that you couldn't ram a spoon into the carton.

When you want some subtle emotions, you need some subtle vehicles for emotion.

I don't think it's any secret that the bigger the venue, the subtlety and artfulness of comedy declines.

Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

I heard the front door open and Rita hustled into the house, home from dropping the children at school. She went through the living room and into the kitchen making all the loud and distinct sounds of someone trying to be quiet.

Zip. He's the most careful OC boss I've ever investigated. Nothing's committed to paper or computer or phone. He doesn't even give direct orders when he's alone with his crew. He hints, he

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

the world is neither intrinsically fair nor exact; it is composed of subtleties that require less simplistic approaches.

But its coolness lies beneath its looks.

As Mr. Sen backed out of the parking lot, he put his arm across the top of the front seat, so that it looked as if he had his arm around Mrs. Sen.

At restaurants and bars, they sometimes slip Bengali phrases into their conversation in order to comment with impunity on another diner's unfortunate hair or shoes.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

I tend to gravitate towards very simple, minimalistic styles.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.