#subtle

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#exhortations #more #obvious #power #repetition

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#aware #being #distracted #easily #focused

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#more #photography #real #reality #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