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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
— Billy Wilder
Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.
— Michio Kaku
We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.
— Emmanuelle De Maupassant
I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.
— Tony Dungy
He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.
— Philip Pullman
When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.
— Frederick Lenz
For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.
— Asa Don Brown
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
— Roger Scruton
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!
— Sarah Harmer
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
— Albert Einstein
The subtle body must be intact to transmit the kundalini.
— Frederick Lenz
Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
— Paul Muni
the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.
— Jeff VanderMeer
It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear.
— Shannon L. Alder
For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. -
— David Graeber
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
— Juliette Adam
I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.
— Guy Pearce
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I felt a subtle sense of disappointment as I left the morgue.
— Dominic Peloso
In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.
— Michael Lewis
I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.
— Sondre Lerche
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.
— Frederick Lenz
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
— Annie Leibovitz
Hell works better when it's a lot more subtle.
— Joel Robinson
Locomotion can be uncomfortable in VR, but a number of developers have figured out how to do some subtle locomotion.
— Brendan Iribe
In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.
— Fred Alan Wolf
The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.
— Kavita Kane
Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
— K.P. Yohannan
Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.
— Lev Grossman
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
— Daniel Bell
Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ...
— Thinley Norbu
Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.
— Annalee Newitz
The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.
— Bob Dylan
Associations are both subtle and powerful.
— Jim Rohn
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
— Steven Brust
I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.
— Kay Panabaker
One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.
— Michael Marshall Smith
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
— Michael Schudson
The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.
— Robert Duncan McNeill
I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.
— Virginia Woolf
Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
— Brian Tracy
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
— Frederick Lenz
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
— Jan Tschichold
Southern Mamas are known for being subtle, like a freight train.
— Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
— Eckhart Tolle
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
— Nile Rodgers
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton
Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There
— David Weber
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
— Tammy Bruce
No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
— Beatrix Farrand
A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.
— Dena Tyson
If your mind is only engaged in the external reality, your life remains far from the existential truth of life.
— Roshan Sharma
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
— James Baldwin
The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
— George Leonard
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
— Richard P. Feynman
Nature is subtle and complex.
— Marlene Van Niekerk
One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.
— Francis Picabia
Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.
— Bret Easton Ellis
And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
— Alison Croggon
Author's Note: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
— Isaac Asimov
There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.
— Donald Miller
Auguries are oft subtle ... and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
