#subtlety

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#gestures #history #power #subtlety #tudors

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#cluttered #everything #front #her #instrument

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

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#example #game #how #manage #men

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#best #bit #control #could #face

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

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#big thing #calendar #country #cultural #forte

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. ↗

— John McEnroe

#book #dinosaur #even #example #for example

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#good #good taste #style #subtlety #taste