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Quotes About Subtle

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.
~ Lenny Abrahamson
I have always been discreet in my life.
~ N'Golo Kante
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
~ Barry Jenkins
I usually have a lip balm in my bag and mascara as well. I don't really wear much make-up, but I like mascara because I've got fair colouring.
~ Lily Cole
What these satellites do is they record light radiation that's reflected off the surface of the Earth in different parts of the light spectrum. We use false color imaging to try to tease out these very subtle differences on the ground.
~ Sarah Parcak
With a camera right in my face, my movements would have to be more subtle; stage techniques would have to be left behind and that would be hard. So many things kept whizzing through my mind, yet I never doubted once that I could do it.
~ Paula Kelly
Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle. We
~ Robert Dugoni
as he made Job, and though Job has probably never in his life even considered Behemoth and Leviathan, they are as ingredient in the complex weave of God's providence as is Job. The overall point of God's speech seems to be this: the suffering of any one person must be seen within the context of the infinitely subtle working out of God's purposes throughout the whole of space and time.
~ Robert E. Barron
like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.
~ Robert Grudin
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not." He still believed that to be true; there was an order to everything in the universe, and the greatest achievement would lie in deciphering it. Shuffling across the study, he repeated, "I'm coming." But
~ Robert Masello
When his theory of relativity had been challenged by a fellow physicist—whose own theories, Einstein contended, relied too much upon random events and coincidences—he had replied: "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not." He still believed that to be true; there was an order to everything in the universe, and the greatest achievement would lie in deciphering it.
~ Robert Masello
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
~ Roberto Bolano
Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.
~ Robertson Davies
Kant's position is extremely subtle – so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
~ Roger Scruton
You know how subtle Brand can be, finding out things without seeming to be after them.
~ Roger Zelazny
A squeeze of the hand—enormous documentation—a tiny gesture within the palm, a knee which doesn't move away, an arm extended, as if quite naturally, along the back of a sofa and against which the other's head gradually comes to rest—this is the paradisiac realm of subtle and clandestine signs: a kind of festival not of the senses but of meaning.)
~ Roland Barthes
If roomy and comfortable, it was extremely modest for someone of Rockefeller's wealth and, like his Cleveland residence, subtly masked the size of his fortune.
~ Ron Chernow
or especially fragile.
~ Lee Child
The edge of the world crept into view, at least to the straining wide-open eyes, limned and outlined in gray on gray, infinitely dim, infinitely subtle, hardly there at all, part imagination, and part hope. Then pale gold fingers probed the gray, moving, ethereal, as if deciding. And then spreading, igniting some thin and distant layer one molecule at a time, one lumen, lighting it up slowly, turning it luminous and transparent, the glass of the bowl, not white and cold, but tinted warmer.
~ Lee Child
inconspicuous left-hand turn off a
~ Lee Child
Unobtrusive. In no one's way.
~ Lee Child
He went up the metal stairs as quietly as he could, reducing the likely clang to a duller pulsing boom, by placing his feet very carefully. He found 214 and knocked on its door, firmly but discreetly, like he imagined a bellboy would, in a fine hotel.
~ Lee Child
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
~ Libba Bray