Quotes About Subtle

You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

On the fragrance side, I think it's important that it's not overpowering, a fragrance on a man or a woman. I think it's important to see the person before you smell them. Less is more.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

I love black diamonds. They say your watch or jewelry wasn't cheap, but they aren't too flashy and in your face.

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed that there is subtle race, and there is sophisticated race, and there's evident and observable race.

I usually wear a lot of really thin gold bands and small studs. Nothing too big.

Thin applications and small amounts in the right places is kind of the way to go with metallics for every day.

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.

The real surprise was not that this happened but the fact that the shift was so subtle. After all, the purposes for which I was using the Scriptures were not bad in and of themselves. It's just that over time, without my awareness, those purposes had trumped the greater purpose for which the Scriptures have been given: to allow my own heart and soul to be penetrated by an intimate word from God. My mind remained engaged, but my heart and soul had drifted far away.

Or it can be as subtle as to stop what you are doing and– without fear– turn your full attention to someone approaching and say, "That's close enough. What can I do for you?" Another is while maintaining the boundary pretend you don't know the answer to the question or have what he asks for.[26] This derails the typical robbery script.

Tonight I have a little surprise for you," he says. He laughs; it's more like a snigger. I notice that everything this evening is little. He wishes to diminish things, myself included.

I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Disasters often begin silently with an almost imperceptible shift in the way things are expected to be.

It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.

What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions and the other barely able to force malmsey past the gorge rising in his throat.

Are you sure it's not one of the ghosts you see eyeballing you? (Tate) No. They're never this subtle. They usually pop in, like 'yo, she-bitch, do my bidding.' This…this is something else. (Simone)

The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

Not all dangers are obvious.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.