Nuance Quotes

134 Nuance quotes by 126 unique authors

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought,… — Cynthia Heimel
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in,… — Timothy Egan
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the… — Carrie Fisher
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up… — Ann Patchett
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we… — Maya Angelou
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's… — Jenna Blum
The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime… — Colum McCann
It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave… — Margaret Atwood
I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm,… — Winona LaDuke
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. — Anne Rice
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself — Sherrilyn Kenyon
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. — Jasper Fforde
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations,… — Anais Nin
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you… — John Green
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at… — John Berendt
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and… — Haruki Murakami
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group… — Greg Thomas
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills… — Kenneth Turan
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head… — Cy Twombly
Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion. — Barney Frank

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