Quotes About Subtlety

If Risa wrote even an ordinary description on an invoice, Noa would pause to read it again, not because of what it said, but because he could detect that there was a kind of dancing spirit in the hand that wrote such elegant letters.

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Good behaviour' at the start means keeping oneself upright and benign in the face of adversity. By the end it has become a byword for enacting cruelty and revenge on your nearest relatives, all, of course, with the utmost subtlety and discretion.

The scholastic method encouraged subtlety, intellectual agility, a sharpening of scholarly wits. It provoked a rage for philosophy, which occupied the schools at the expense of humanistic and scientific studies. Compromising by nature, it did not lead to the discovery of great final truths. It led, rather, to aridity, spiritual casuistry, and, with its ever more fine-spun distinctions, to absurdity.

So what accounts for the enduring popularity of these stories where nothing happens on a grand scale, where characters engage in endless small talk and the protagonists suffer in silence and only reveal their true feelings at the very end of the tale?

Of course, everyone had heard of the Ten Commandments, but these things, so much subtler, so embedded in the stuff of everyday human life and human interactions--this was the ultimate goal of all Jewish life: justice, kindness, charity, Holiness.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich.

Dornan gave me a wink, as if to say he saw I was glowing under a bit of flattery as much as anyone else in the room.

If she's to guide kings, she'll need subtlety, and all the Anglisc know is blade and blood and boast." Hild said in Irish, "You have not met my mother.

The curve of her cheek, the top of her shoulder where her shift had slipped, had the bloom and sheen of just-risen cream ready to be licked.

If she's to guide kings she'll need subtlety, and all the Anglisic know is blade and blood and boast." Hild said in Irish, "You have not met my mother.

You have a bright mind but lack subtlety. I could teach you. And life around Edwin will be interesting-oh, very, very interesting, if I'm any judge, which I am-for the next little while. And I've a mind to meet your mother.

Hild used a trick she had learnt from Gwladus, and studied her mother through half-closed eyes while she lowered her head to her apparent task. Breguswith was smiling to herself.

There was no wind in the hall, no fly to land on Gwenhwyfar's hand and tell Peretur all she needed-and she could read nothing in the queen's carefully judged smile.

Her mother, changing sides so gradually, so carefully that even Hild hadn't noticed.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

All the aphorisms of Zarathustra And the virgin soil of paradoxes. Elegantly subtle sophistries- All turned into blood.

She slowly sinks into gentleness

Many things are too delicate to be thought, much less spoken of in words.

Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.