Quotes About Nuance

We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray. Yet we somehow expect our relationships to never be anything but simple and pure.

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

We paint small town America with a really broad stroke. There's a lot more nuance to these towns than, I think, the world knows.

Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one. Clearly it stands for something more.

Elegance is not everything.

And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the next book I will find it - some unspeakable pleasure or startling revelation or extraordinary nuance I had never felt or thought of before.

Of course, such a moment isn't easy to analyze because every social encounter is laden with the unsaid and the unseen.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

Tu abuela dice que lees mucho, siempre que tienes oportunidad. Eso está bien, pero no es suficiente. Las palabras significan más de lo que dicen en el papel. Necesitan la voz humana para que les infunda los matices del significado más profundo.

We refuse to allow either/or thinking to cloud our judgment. We embrace the logic of both/and. We acknowledge the limits of what we know.

There is always something more to be said, and it is always so difficult to turn up the splice neatly at the edges.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.