Quotes About Nuance

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Just as serious modern literature does not have plain old bad guys, sophisticated movies may also avoid such stock figures.

And at the risk of answering the same question the same way over and over: it's not a fucking binary. It would be easier for a lot of people if it were, but it just bloody well ain't, and nothing any of us does can make it that way. Please take a deep breath. Or,

it has more than one nuance or resonance of meaning. In terms of its Greek roots, "metaphor" means "to carry with," and what metaphor carries or bears is resonances or associations of meaning.

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.

It was true she had never specifically forbidden us to do anything - that would be too crude a violation of her law of nuance - but this only makes me feel I am actually forbidden to do everything.

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described

It's impossible to say something exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, because what you say can never be exact, you will always leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could be this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we'd all fit inside some multiple-choice question.

There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture just that - the details, the nuance, what is. If you start to look around, you will start to see.

good dialogue encompasses both what is said and what is not said.

Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture that--the details, the nuance, what is.

we have reduced our politics to black and white today: either for or against, nothing in between. Fifty Shades of Grey could never be the title of a book about Indian politics. This view of

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure;

Imprecision is, on the whole, highly prized. Definition and categorization are, by contrast, suspect. For

The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our vocabulary, the greater the scope for thought and expression. Language is about subtlety and nuance. It is power and it is potent. We can woo with words and we can wound. Despots fear the words of the articulate opponent. Successful revolutions are achieved with words as much as with weapons.