#subtle

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create

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

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #danger #ethics #glory #isolates

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing. ↗

— Don Knotts

#idol #jack #jack benny #master #subtlety

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

#binding #bondage #clothes #fashion #form

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ↗

— George Eliot

#anything #detect #fold #heart #never

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something. ↗

— Mike Epps

#falling #hilarious #i #just #learned

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#aspects #conducting #conductors #grasp #i

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ↗

— Emily Carr

#digging #does #explain #grows #growth

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#back #clever #come #driver #hit

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour