Quotes About Nuance

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

I don't judge my characters.

A woman is not just one thing.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

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

Great wine is about nuance, surprise, subtlety, expression, qualities that keep you coming back for another taste. Rejecting a wine because it is not big enough is like rejecting a book because it is not long enough, or a piece of music because it is not loud enough." — KERMIT LYNCH, Adventures on the Wine Route

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

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

It's all black and white to you, isn't it?" "Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.

Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.

Everything isn't black and white like you want it to be.

V'lane extends his hand when I don't move. "Come, we must speak privately." "Why?" "What subtle nuance of the word 'private' do you not understand?" "Probably the same subtle nuance of the word 'no' you never understand.

You know, I have always hated that expression, "a blessing or a curse." As if anything in life were so neatly divisible. Let's try this: a freedom, or something worse.

It ain't what you say: it's how you say it.

Der Aphorismus deckt sich nie mit der Wahrheit; er ist entweder eine halbe Wahrheit oder anderthalb.

It occurred to her, suddenly, that the Chinese took poets as concubines. Their poets slept with warlords. They wrote with gold ink. They ate orchids and smoked opium. They were consecrated by nuance, by birds and silk and the ritual birthdays of gods and nothing changed for a thousand years. And afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites.

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all.

Okay, he says. They both say it, all the time. I've finally started to figure out what it means. It means "yes" and "all right". It also means less than all right, and a begrudging no. It means everything, and nothing, all at once.

The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights into the secrets of cellular life.

you'll have to be willing to embrace simplicity—while always resisting oversimplification.