Subtle Quotes

I was the most subtle person in the world.

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!

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.

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

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

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

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

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

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

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.

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

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

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

We already have our phones, but other wearables, and those technologies are going to want to know when you're deciding things and then offer some kind of input subtle or less so on that moment.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

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.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear.

If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Action isn’t just the effect of motivation

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.

True pillar of subtle light embrace humanity between dimensions, they are serene consciousness washing the pains of all soul's.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one

People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.