#subtlety

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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.


Dan Fogelberg


#acoustic guitar #guitar #i #i love #love

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.


Ben Folds


#i #i write #inside #lot #proud

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

You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.


Doug Walker


#nostalgia-critic #simile #subtlety #train-wreck #simile

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

The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right. I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle.


Jim Butcher


#harry-dresden #humor #subtlety #tolkien #anger

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.


Francis Bacon


#many #nature #ny times #over #senses

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


Don Knotts


#idol #jack #jack benny #master #subtlety