172 Subtle Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality. Joyce Carol Oates

You Reality World Differences Living Ways See Some Perceiving Scientist Very Than Subtle Differently Humanist

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me. Judith Guest

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I've been subtle in my taste. It's all about solid colours - mostly blue, white, and black. Also, I believe one should always feel comfortable in what they wear. Because when they're not, their body language is always a big give-away. Kartik Aaryan

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective. Kathie Lee Gifford

Complex Sexual Highly Subjective Subtle Harassment

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed. Ken Follett

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I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it. Kim Gordon

Sometimes Listening Jazz Think Kind Promote John John Coltrane Record Some About Coltrane Weird Know Doing Go Were Up List Want Influences Grew Subtle Then Jazz Record Things

I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way. Lykke Li

Needs You Looking Dramatic Way Eye Wearing Seem Invisible Always Subtle Notice Body Your Your Body Even

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. Margaret Hamilton

You Think Restrained Like Any Subtle Acting Your Things Apply

Aside from birthing me my first grey hairs and keeping me up at night more times than I'd like to count, 'The Subtle Art' taught me a lot about the nature of work. And a lot of that had to do with how my perception of the work itself evolved over the course of writing the book. Mark Manson

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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

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I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning. Michael Chabon

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

Values Power More Rests Ads Obvious Repetition Than Subtle Transmission

We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it. Mike Colter

Family People College Our Out Fraternity Admit Brothers Guys Small Colors Come Exist Up Than Just Where Different Want Grew Subtle Different Colors Places Certain Act Differently Things

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too. Mike Gordon

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes. Mona Simpson

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The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.' Nina Easton

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