#subtle

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #subtle




Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.


Daniel Craig


#chess #chess game #comes #crown #faye

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.


Woodrow Wilson


#insight #instrument #interpretation #life #method

I woke to the sound of rain.


Sylvia Plath


#rain #simple #subtle #beauty

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.


Paul Muni


#herself #nature #repeat #subtle #too

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.


Bernard Pivot


#expressing #great #language #nuances #our

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


Duncan Sheik


#expected #first #i #just #moon

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#air #beauty #changes #claim #forest

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.


Thomas Mann


#guile #love #subtle #death

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.


Criss Jami


#consciousness #corruption #dangerous #impact #mass-media

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?


Kate Chopin


#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear