Subtly Quotes

85 Subtly quotes by 79 unique authors

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does… — William Dean Howells
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. — Ben Okri
Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats.… — Vivian Mercier
Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's… — Gianni Versace
Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways,… — Annie Proulx
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls… — Barbara Kingsolver
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not… — David Whyte
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,… — Thomas Merton
It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials… — Ben Okri
In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small… — William Styron
Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom… — Marvin J. Ashton
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems… — Sri Aurobindo
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy… — Upton Sinclair
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick,… — Waverley Root
Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability. Marsala is a subtly seductive shade, one that draws us in to its embracing… — Leatrice Eiseman
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung
There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you. — Anatole Broyard
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly… — Frederick Lenz
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music. — Norah Jones
The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but… — Paul Strand
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we… — William Shakespeare
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly… — Fernand Leger
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming… — Alexander Theroux
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see. — Peter Senge

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