Quotes About Understated

A mans style in any art should be like his dress it should attract as little attention as possible.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

I'm just really good at blending in. If you look at how I've grown up, I wasn't the best, so hanging back comes more naturally.

I've never been very flashy or high-profile.

Nothing he wore was designed to attract attention, but he made every other man in the room look either a trifle overdressed or a trifle shabby.

I'm pretty low-key. I'm pretty boring, to be honest.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

Rick was brash, with strong opinions, and sometimes outrageously funny, in contrast with the calm and understated Mark Gertler.

In fact, despite my understated style, I was as aggressive on this issue as on any during my time in Washington.

When is nothing special the most important thing? When it's the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don't even know we are beautiful.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

Atiana's very humble and more quiet and just so talented.

He had looked up at the scoreboard to watch the replay, and a video of the highlights from his season that Billy Wareham, the team videographer, made the previous day in case Crosby hit 100. It was set to the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil," a fitting, understated choice.

Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.

I'm not the kind of guy who says 'wow' a lot.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

Trucker and I hoped simply to try and stay "gray men" and not be noticed. To put our heads down and get on and quietly do the work. This didn't exactly go according to plan. "Where are the lads who speak like Prince Charles?" The 23 DS shouted on the first parade when we arrived. "Would you both like newspapers with your morning tea, gents?" the DS sarcastically enquired. Part of me was tempted to answer how nice that would be, but I resisted.

If I have a reputation for anything, it's for keeping a low profile.

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention.