Quotes About Subtle

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

He had a thin smile, a smile weighed out in ounces; it balanced a favour exactly with no warmth to spare.

What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

But deserts, even the driest and least inviting to animals and plants, contain subtle multitudes. And rather like silences (outside of vacuums) and as John Cage demonstrated with his famous 4'33" piece, they are often noisy with life.

The increase in cautious inaction among coworkers is another subtle but powerful effect that psychopathic behavior has on the organization.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Get it? Foul. Not one of my subtler jokes, but it'll do.

It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful, and there was a moment during my working hours in the late afternoon when a kind of panic and anxiety overtook me, just for a few minutes, accompanied by a visceral queasiness.

That's a hint of a whisper of a curl.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into still subtler form.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed in a pitiless, forward direction, its politics and its language becoming ever more gross and simplistic: the Revolution is always flexible, subtle, elegant.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique.

Poison may be a coward's weapon, but it's an effective one.

Mijn moeder wil met je praten. Volgens haar is wat je gedaan hebt een schreeuw om hulp.' - Daneca. 'Inderdaad,' zeg ik. 'Daarom riep ik ook "Hellup!" Al te subtiel hoeft van mij niet.