Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit. — Tom Doak Copy Share Image
“The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
