Subtle Quotes · Page 10

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

— Carl Sagan

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

— William Howard Taft

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

— Deepak Chopra

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

— Francis Beaumont

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

— Anonymous

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

— Sarah Harmer

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think…

— Peter Thiel

You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the…

— Jay Duplass

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle…

— Sun Tzu

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but…

— Mary MacLane

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to…

— Damaris Phillips

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and…

— Payne Stewart

When something goes wrong with the body of energy that surrounds and protects your physical body, it will later show up in…

— Frederick Lenz

I love the simplicity of Kevin Spacey's work. He really does a subtle interpretation of every character, and that's kind of my…

— Devon Bostick

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer…

— Vaclav Havel

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents…

— Vita Sackville-West

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is…

— Stephen Shore

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his…

— George Edward Woodberry

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He…

— Helen Mirren

He doesn’t have to say it, i feel it too; it’s not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is…

— Jandy Nelson

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication.…

— Daniel Keyes

You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -…

— Noam Chomsky

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

— Demosthenes

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois

If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.

— Frederick Lenz

I am grateful to Allan Donald for his guidance and subtle nuances that he taught me.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about…

— Oscar Wilde

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— Susan Sontag

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

— Pink

“There is no subtle way to mention you miss the curve of someone’s ass. ”

— Joey Comeau

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

— Tammy Bruce

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Alfred Stieglitz

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle