#subtle

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself. ↗

— Cyril Tourneur

#forgets #happiest #himself #i #i think

You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat. ↗

— Doug Walker

#nostalgia-critic #simile #subtlety #train-wreck #simile

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#i think #sexiness #should #subtleties #think

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#gestures #history #power #subtlety #tudors

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#campaign #conventional #conventional wisdom #deal #dynamic

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship. ↗

— Emily Watson

#concentrate #darkened #had #i #interesting

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#composer #differs #each #negative #performance

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#break #clear #disparities #down #men

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#america #been #discussion #europe #grubby