Best 78 quotes in «subtle quotes» category

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

My interest in fragrance is really a personal thing. I've always gravitated toward them and appreciate the subtle, meaningful way they express who you are.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so much in the physical body, as in what we call the subtle physical body, the body of energy.

The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.

The subtle body must be intact to transmit the kundalini.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.

The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

When something goes wrong with the body of energy that surrounds and protects your physical body, it will later show up in your physical body. The problem always starts in the subtle physical, and then manifests in the physical.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome. Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him. It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

All the mothers-in-law I have ever had were admirable. Yet the legend of the comic papers is profoundly true. It draws attention to the fact that it is much harder to be a nice mother-in-law than to be nice in any other conceivable relation of life. The caricatures have drawn the worst mother-in-law a monster, by way of expressing the fact that the best mother-in-law is a problem. The same is true of the perpetual jokes in comic papers about shrewish wives and henpecked husbands. It is all a frantic exaggeration, but it is an exaggeration of a truth; whereas all the modern mouthings about oppressed women are the exaggerations of a falsehood. If you read even the best of the intellectuals of to-day you will find them saying that in the mass of the democracy the woman is the chattel of her lord, like his bath or his bed. But if you read the comic literature of the democracy you will find that the lord hides under the bed to escape from the wrath of his chattel. This is not the fact, but it is much nearer the truth. Every man who is married knows quite well, not only that he does not regard his wife as a chattel, but that no man can conceivably ever have done so. The joke stands for an ultimate truth, and that is a subtle truth.

Being quiet is the loudest remark.

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of her characters were likeable. 'Perhaps it is because I don't like anyone,' Highsmith replied. 'My last books may be about animals'.

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.