Quotes About Nuance

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause. . .

It was a voice so full of emotion that it sounded like no emotion at all.

She wanted to see it clearly, to understand that it wasn't all black, or all white. It was a million colors. And

When disability or madness is present, it is conceived of as a deficit, something in need of correction, medically/psychiatrically or by the correction industry, but not as a nuanced identity from which to understand how to live differently, including reevaluating responses to harm and difference.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Trying to compose even a single sentence can have the same effect, as we try to juggle grammatical and syntactical alternatives plus all the possibilities of tone, nuance, and rhythm even a simple sentence offers. Composing, then, is a cognitive activity that constantly threatens to overload short-term memory.

Everything is always painted as black or white. Life is not like that, of course. Life is about all the shades of grey in between. I

All my father's opinions were either black or white; things were either right or wrong, good or bad: there was no nuance to his worldview. It was embarrassing.)

I don't think it exists anymore where you have to be a vegetarian or meat-eater. There's this beautiful gray area that we're all living in now; it just takes some exposure to the different ways to do it.

When you want some subtle emotions, you need some subtle vehicles for emotion.

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.

But I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey... They are both oaks, even if they were planted in different forests. But then, m'lord, we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party. I suspect no one is coming to save us; we can only save ourselves.

the world is neither intrinsically fair nor exact; it is composed of subtleties that require less simplistic approaches.

What does a word mean? And a life? In the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.