Quotes About Subtlety

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

I think there's a weird stigma in the TV-film world that theater people can't be funny and understand subtlety, and I think that could not be more wrong.

If you've ever watched a television cartoon, you know that kids don't appreciate subtlety, though perhaps that's because they're not often offered it.

In terms of scripted shows, I love 'Mad Men.' Cinematically, it's one of the most beautiful shows ever made. I love the subtlety of the acting and the storytelling, and I love that they don't think the audience is dumb. They make a great show, and you figure it out, and it leaves you with so many questions - it's just great.

Really, subtlety is what is really important to me and my work.

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in the post-totalitarian societies.

Cats speak a subtle language in which few sounds carry many meanings, depending on how they are sung or purred. "Mnrhnh" means comfortable soft chairs. It also means fish. It means genial companionship... and the absence of dogs.

The truth is that our minds are corrupted by sin. Not just a little bit, but deeply, down to the depths as far as we can perceive, and beyond. And not just grossly, so that it is easy to figure out where we went wrong, but subtly, delicately, invisibly. If we think we know and appreciate how far we have gone wrong, we are still deceiving ourselves at this point also.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

Beauty is a frail good.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

La docilidad no es lo mismo que la amabilidad. S personalidad líquida iba tanteando el terreno, y se introducía sigilosamente por los puntos más vulnerables de los demás hasta encontrar un lugar apropiado en el que instalarse y sacar de él el máximo provecho.

You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.

This was how we'd always played. You were Cinderella, I was a mouse. You were Alice, I was the Hatter. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.