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

Sir Francis Bacon

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

Denis Healey

My sister works in an inner-city school in Greenville, South Carolina, and she brought many of her at-risk kids to our show yesterday to the sound-check. It was amazing how these kids opened up with music. Music teaches so much about focus and concentration and group dynamics and appreciation for subtlety and beauty. And that's being taken away from schools.

Natalie Merchant

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.

Jason Molina

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Oliver Goldsmith

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Isaac Asimov

Her performances display great subtlety and musical integrity. Critics praise her remarkable range and richness of tone, balanced by a soft touch and refined pedal technique, which enable her to bring out in her playing, elements of the music not noticeable in the score.

Christine Harforth

There's a lot of subtlety. Lots of detail in the performances. People could come see it a couple times and see new things.

John Heider

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

Neal Stephenson

It's not in the spirit of political discourse -- like, what [California Gov. Arnold] Schwarzenegger did ... was fun, he was making fun of himself and playfully toying with the opposition, it was harmless in a way, ... But their tone is, there's such a lack of humor, there's such a lack of subtlety, it's all so retro-60s stuff.

Chris Healy

American audiences, when they sit down to watch TV, like to be taken on a roller coaster ride. They don't like subtlety.

Andrea Wong

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Todd Hollenshead