Quotes About Nuance

It was important to me that my heroes not be all good and my villains not be all bad.

the beauty of the word sometimes, how sometimes evens us out, keeps us in the comfortable middle rather than dangling on one end of the spectrum or the other, hanging on for dear life. It helps us escape from the tyranny of black-or-white thinking.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there is no black or white. There are gradations of gray.

Entre uma boa acção e uma má acção existem mil tons de cinzento.

Can a person not be two things at once?

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

In movies there is a clear line between the good guys and the bad guys. In life, not so much.

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

And what do you remember, finally, when everyone has gone home and the streets are empty of devotion and hope, swept by river wind? Is the memory thin and bitter and does it shame you with its fundamental untruth--all nuance and wishful silhouette? Or does the power of transcendence linger, the sense of an event that violates natural forces, something holy that throbs on the hot horizon, the vision you crave because you need a sign to stand against your doubt?

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children.

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

Success is in the details.

Spock smiled without smiling—something McCoy had seen him do once or twice before, and damned if

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

Learning 'yes' and 'no' gave them at least twenty minutes' worth of entertainment because mood-shading them could turn 'yes' into 'no, you bastard' and 'no' into 'maybe,' 'I'm only fake-saying no,' and variations of 'hells, no' that felt completely different from saying 'hells no' in any other language.

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Oakmoss, patchouli, bergamot, labdanum, in the balance you constantly shift and nuance like a conductor, but dancing on top of that tonka, a hint of leather and a cheeky reference to Miss Dior, with some carnation. I think there will be ambergris and sandalwood in the dry-down, and I can't wait to see how it smells in the middle of the night.