#subtle

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

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

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#extraordinarily #figuring #how #infinite #job

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#art #contrast #create #diffusion #exposure

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#feel #harrison #human #human being #kind

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#obvious #pays #reputation #subtlety #you

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#convenient #creatures #down #follow #messy

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#back #being #give #killing #lethal

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly