Subtle Quotes · Page 9

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

— Michael Schudson

If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.

— Alain Ducasse

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

— Michael Caine

I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

— Gabriel Orozco

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

— Dan Mangan

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.

— Lynne Ramsay

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

What I like to do is take something from a man's wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We've got another jacket in this…

— Christophe Lemaitre

just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest…

— John Daido Loori

When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether…

— Edward Weston

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

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

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United…

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Paul Tournier

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

— John C. Reilly

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

— Ayn Rand

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

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

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

— Antoine Rivarol