Subtle Quotes - Page 2

• Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad,
  I like to keep poking around in it.
  I like to get into the middle of a relationship,
  to explore the subtle places.

  Paul Mazursky

  Funny Relationship, Middle, Situation

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• If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Joy, Flying, Firsts

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• 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

  Song, Jesus, Couple

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• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  Isaac Asimov

  Encouragement, Truth, Mistake

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

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Way, Negative

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• Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

  David Duchovny

  Sexy, Fashion, Men

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• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

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• But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

  James A. Baldwin

  Power, Morality

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• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Aristocracy, Literature, Ethics

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• Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

  Edward Witten

  Nature, Simplicity, Physics

  "Viewpoints on String Theory: Edward Witten". "NOVA" interview, www.pbs.org. July 2003.

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

  Randy Harrison

  Kind, Feels, Randy

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• If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

  Lee Ritenour

  Play, Piano, Bass

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• My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

  Duncan Sheik

  Moon, Two, Records

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• 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

  People, Details, Looks

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• The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Matter, Relation, Exquisite

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• Some people are more expressive in worship. Some people more subtle and it's all good

  Tim Hawkins

  People, Worship, Expressive

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• Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Life, Motivational, Heaven

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• We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic to it. But in fact, people do pick up on our subtle energy, and even if they can't see it or put it into words, they feel it and, subliminally, they know. They vote yes, no or maybe according to the qualities and strength of the energy we project.

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Quality, Energy

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Facts, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry David Thoreau (1929). “Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer”

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• Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Hands, Cameras

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

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