Subtle Quotes

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

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

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

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

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

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.