Subtlety Quotes

151 quotes by 143 authors

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child. — Steven Erikson
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the… — Dweezil Zappa
Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always… — Martina Hingis
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such… — Gunther Schuller
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the… — Alma Gluck
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate… — Sun Tzu
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the… — Okakura Kakuzo
True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace. — Paul David Tripp
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and… — Shelley Berman
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great… — Prince Charles
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers… — William Raspberry
By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth… — Laozi
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. — Bernard Pivot
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. — Dan Fogelberg
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. — Mark Lawrence
After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even… — Mary Pickford
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to… — Henry John Stephen Smith
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions,… — Michael Foley
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers. — Ron Dennis

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