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Quotes About Subtle

You have to watch our for the quiet ones. Take some advice from me. The quiet observant girls are the deadliest.
~ Serena Valentino
Surround us with your subtle and hidden prophets, that we might have help to overcome self-deception and face the truth that sets us free. Amen.
~ Shane Claiborne
So, what happened to your face?" Sara grabbed Miki by her T-shirt and jeans before she could dive over the counter at the Asian girl they called Kelly. Angelina leaned forward as Sara pulled Miki back to her, "You know what they say about curiosity? That it stabbed the annoying biker girl over and over and over again until she spit up blood." Oh, yeah. That was subtle.
~ Shelly Laurenston
At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.
~ Elif Batuman
For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.
~ Mary Balogh
Billy is all for the subtle use of profanity, but too much just seems excessive, like saxophone solos in rock songs.
~ Matthew Norman
Given the electoral history of the Republicans since Nixon's Southern Strategy, winning races by stirring up racist, homophobic and misogynist feelings, it was rich to see them criticizing Trump for those qualities. They simply wanted a nominee who would be a more subtle bigot, as party tradition demands. The
~ Maureen Dowd
DETECTION HAS MANY METHODS, MANY PATHWAYS, NARROW AND subtle. Fingerprints. The lost piece of thread. The dog barking in the night. But there is also Google.
~ Maureen Johnson
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was very pretty. It also made Marlene look very demure, which she probably hated. Ideally, Marlene probably wanted an outfit that had a special holder for a gun.
~ Maureen Johnson
His mustache made two curved lines around the sides of his mouth like parentheses, as if everything he might say would be very quiet, and incidental.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I noted he had no place to conceal a weapon or transmitter. I wondered whether the attire had been chosen deliberately, to reassure me. Dox liked to play the hick, and a lot of people bought the act, but I knew he could be subtle when he wanted to be.
~ Barry Eisler
It is, after all, not man but the universe that is subtle.
~ Barry Lopez
Design is sloppy because a good solution is often only subtly different from a poor one.
~ Steve McConnell
DEVONthink features a clever algorithm that detects subtle semantic connections between distinct passages of text.
~ Steven Johnson
When one loads hay onto a wagon, it can be any amount, even a couple of pitchforkfuls. But when one loads the wagon with hay, the implication is that the wagon is full.36 This subtle difference, which linguists call the holism effect, can be seen with the other locative verbs:
~ Steven Pinker
I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
~ Iggy Azalea
Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
~ Erma Bombeck
In his opinion, it was possible to appease certain desires reputed to be the most difficult to satisfy under normal conditions – and that, what's more, by a subtle subterfuge, by an approximate simulation of the object of those very desires.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
blinking gently
~ Erin Hunter
Given the fact that intuitions are charged with feelings but aren't emotionally-charged, a vital skill is to be able to disentangle intuition's subtle feelings from intense emotional feelings and the attachment and cravings that strong emotions bring.
~ Eugene Sadler-Smith
It is often by our bullshit that we reveal our allegiance. Our words convey a sense of belonging to a particular club. And because it is a subtle form of communication, it is harder to fake that an explicit statement of loyalty.
~ Evan Davis
The real point is always buried in the subtitles.
~ Evan Davis