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Quotes About Subtle

R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.
~ Edward Abbey
Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field.
~ Anonymous
Of all forms of commentary on the divine Word, a translation is the most subtle.
~ Anthony Buzzard
He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.
~ Anthony Doerr
Where did the boy fit? He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.
~ Anthony Doerr
can send a black thread twisting through his mood for days
~ Anthony Doerr
Ele tinha uma presença tão apagada. Era como estar em uma sala com uma pena. Mas a alma dele brilhava com uma bondade fundamental...
~ Anthony Doerr
There's not a lot of flash about me.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
'Rubberband' is a lot of things, but it's not a flashy record.
~ Charlie Worsham
I'm really not someone who is drawn to something that's in your face, it feels a little forced.
~ Aimee Osbourne
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
~ Frank Herbert
So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want." A gloating expression. "The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.
~ Frank Herbert
Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
~ Ashley Madekwe
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.
~ Michel Faber
Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film.
~ Michael Cimino
Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.
~ Terry Teachout
The world's societies suffer from the current cult of victimization because its subtle dogma holds that circumstances and other people prevent you from achieving your goals.
~ Roger Connors
A fair portion of my anger had returned, but alongside it ran the memory of those few seconds on the yoga mat in the death pose. I felt as if I had been shown a kind of essential secret, something so subtle and quiet and small(and yet so important)that I could gone my entire adult life and never even imagined such a thing existed.
~ Roland Merullo
Don't worry. Felix is subtler than he looks. And he's not an assassin." The four vaporized terrorists north of us would probably disagree, I thought.
~ Roland Smith
I hardly think my berating you wildly when I arrived at the hotel was subtle behavior." "No?" Thomas grinned. "You berated me in Portuguese. For all I knew you were telling me I was the sexiest thing you'd seen in your life." "In your dreams," Inez chuckled.
~ Lynsay Sands
she said very softly.
~ Maggie Shayne
Don't be too obvious about it.
~ Auliq Ice