Quotes About Subtle

Walk soft, like whispers.

But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.

There were other, more subtle artistic effects. The slow shift of the light through each day caused shadows to drift, shorten and lengthen, producing constantly changing silhouettes. The summits of mountains, which might be pink in the mornings, turned violet and amaranth in the afternoon. ... Like music, (these phenomena) created a feeling that was not there before

True spirituality never advertises itself.

How cruel is reason! How sharper than a serpent's tooth is meditation! How subtle is the lack of reason!

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

There are many models in the current range, and if you ask a 911 enthusiast to talk you through the subtle differences between each, you can be sure that by the end of the conversation one of you will be dead.

The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […] On the face of it, the term "web platform" seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments. Flash was a platform. Android is a platform. iOS is a platform. But the web is not a platform. The whole point of the web is that it is cross?platform.

They design the car alarm so it will behave as if it was a nervous hysterical person. Anyone goes near it, disturbs it, "Aaaaaahhhhhhh!" Lights flashing on and off, acting all crazy. Wouldn't it be nice to have a car alarm that was a little more subtle? Somebody tries to break in, it goes, "Ahem. Ahem. Excuse me?"

The worst side effects are the ones we don't see.

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

The mist was like a faint perfume.

I sometimes think my style is suggestive rather than direct. The reader must often use his imagination or lose the most subtle part of my thought.

she quickly went from "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without getting blood on her fashionable dress" to "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without closing the book she was reading". A subtle distinction, really, but an important one.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Geralt's expression changed a little, in what was probably supposed to be a smile.

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

Theatre is more metaphorical where you have to be louder and larger than life, whereas film is more subtle and more real.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.