Quotes About Understated

Anything simple always interests me.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

Revealing his past or qualities of his character would have been too loud a gesture.

To say that Windermere is popular with boaters is to flirt recklessly with understatement.

furnished, but by no means decorated

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Those who know me well know that I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve like other people do. That's just the way I was raised.

I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

James Dean has never been one of my guys. I don't want to be him. I will take boring anytime. I love boring! Are you kidding me? Matt Damon has been one of my favorites forever. He always elevates every bit of material, and then you don't hear a thing about him.

I don't really go anywhere. I'm kind of low key.

I've kinda been an off-Broadway sensation. There aren't a lot of lights or big marquees around my name or my work, yet my core audience knows exactly where I am.

I haven't the knack of being colorful.

I love introverted wines because, like introverted people, they know they are good; they don't have to show off.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

You see I'm a very personal man. I might have a very large exterior but I am basically quite a sober and simple man.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.