Nuance Quotes

134 quotes by 126 authors

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances. — Andy Rooney
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term,… — William Safire
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. — Robert Ludlum
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language.… — Alicia Vikander
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more… — Galina Vishnevskaya
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a… — Joshua Waitzkin
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the… — Gerhard Richter
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain… — Dave Barry
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic… — Graham Parker
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. — Don Cheadle
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system. — Vera Farmiga
I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances. — Maggie Grace
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).… — Joseph Sobran
Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. — Graham Joyce
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of… — Leslie Jamison
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance… — Hari Kunzru
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified. — Chris Cornell
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different… — Rollo May
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is… — Etty Hillesum

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