Subtlety Quotes
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.
Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.
For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.
Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.
She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.
Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.
Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.
Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.
Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others.
You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.
Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.
Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.
He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.
A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.
In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
It was easy to conclude: The night was young and alive, in its ever so subtle way.
People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963)