Subtle Quotes

Your basic guy is into a straight-ahead, bottom-line kind of thought process that does not work nearly as well with the infinitely subtle complexities of human relationships as it does with calculating how much gravel is needed to cover a given driveway. - Dave Barry

You want to find more and more of the one-on-one kind of marketing approaches - much more close, intimate to the consumer. These subtle passions you try to reach out to. - Tony Ponturo

You have to really straddle the fence. Definitely, you don't want to be a caricature. I hope to never play a caricature and that's the challenge - what are the subtleties and nuances in the character himself and how do you bring those out and make him more realistic? But then also, you can't make him too sympathetic, because at the end of the day, you have to be able to dismiss that kind of character because they're wrong in every way, shape and form. - Blair Underwood

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. - Tommy Lee Jones

You can make subtle changes that don't increase weight and don't look geriatric. The aim is to get good design. - Vickie Curtis

You are the tree; Your branches have blossomed forth. From the very small and subtle, You have become huge and manifest. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

You always go into the NCAA tournament and make a couple of little, subtle adjustments. You may take something that looks like this and just add one piece or remove one piece, or move it around a little bit, but it still looks like this. With this group, what I did was I took some stuff that we did in November and I showed it to them again, and they think it's brand new. - Geno Auriemma

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. - Roy Lichtenstein

Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Little League, in a subtle way. That way, we know that they like kids, but they're still using birth control. - Lori Gottlieb