#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 think that sexiness should be in the subtleties. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#i think #sexiness #should #subtleties #think

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music. ↗

— Norah Jones

#enjoy #i #lot #making #music

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it. ↗

— Norah Jones

#actually #album #albums #because #couple

I was the most subtle person in the world. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#most #person #subtle #world

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

— Cyril Tourneur

#forgets #happiest #himself #i #i 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

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love. ↗

— Amy Grant

#also #american #birth #combine #couple

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#cuts #day #disastrous #end #end of the day