[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately… — Graham Kerr Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent,… — Richard Chizmar Copy Share Image
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
“Out of character to be so obvious. You need to be more subtle. Locate a partially blocked artery in his brain, then… — Michael A. Stackpole Copy Share Image
An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“They’re surrounding us,” he grunted against my neck. “But they won’t go near your fire. Thanks for that, by the way. You’re… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Over the time that I followed Warren Buffett, one CFO told me, it's very important to pay attention not only to what… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Soccer can be very subtle; it's a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don't see it,… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
Wrestling is difficult - it is not just about doing moves and running around, and creating high spots. It's so much more… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and… — Juan Ruiz Copy Share Image
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city,… — Margaret Catley-Carlson Copy Share Image
I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image