Quotes About Nuance

I have a real hard time classifying anything as my biggest moment, my favorite color or whatever.

I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy - that's the place to go. That's what makes a great show. That's what all of us deal with in life.

I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

alas, how little can language say without seeming to say something wrong!

That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we set up for ourselves in the midst of the confusion, in the infinite space of love. The greatest passions come from such little causes.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.

There is always half a truth in cliche.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference

voices have more data. We get tons of information (humor, attitude, nuance) you can't get from text. When in doubt, go voice.

Maybe some of both.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.

the dark, the light. What's the difference

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside. (165)