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“Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.”

“There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.”

Humor Funny Food Humorous Noses Subtle Pilots Rip Airline Landing Air Travel

Author:Bob Hope

“The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.”

Thinking Important Funny America Humorous Important Things Leaving Communicate Shirts Subtle Listeners Refrain Nuance Grabbing Unsaid Euphemism

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.”

“What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.”

States United United States Subtle San Francisco Newcomers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.”

Writing Art Self Discovery Self Discovery Subtle Experimentation

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.”

Faith Infinite Chains Subtle

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Students Arms Subtle Poetry Is Ducks Collapse Avoiding Jane Ingenious Blake Austen Milton Literary Art

Author:Terry Eagleton

“When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.”

Knows Wanted Parent Like You Drink Let Me Wine Experts Subtle Hints Devastated

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.”

Men Way Break Clear Men And Women Treated Subtle Barriers Breaking Down Disparity

Author:Eleanor Clift

“The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.”

Way Long Long Time Subtle Brainwashing

Author:Sean Durkin

“In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!”

Giving Next Morning Happened Scene Give Me Subtle Making Love Feathers Blanket Dukes Towels Humming Vests Rio Bravo

Author:Angie Dickinson

“By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.”

Body Fun Enjoy Interesting Brain Figures Exercise Diets Subtle Workout Adjusting

Author:Lisa Edelstein

“Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.”

World Way Want Writing Mean Stories Secret I've Learned Changing The World Subtle

Author:Carol Emshwiller

“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

May Children One Day Forgiveness Subtle Thread Love And Friendship

Author:George Foreman

“We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.”

Thinking Way Life Has Beens Design Taught Capable Conscious Intelligent Structure Consistent Contradiction Subtle Fragmented

Author:Edward T. Hall

“...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.”

Government Today Brain Like You Constitution Population Tiny Subtle Meant To Be Denied Amendments Federal Government Fractions Nuance Twister

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.”

Values Wonder Subtle Links Observing Family Values

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.”

Enjoy Music Is Subtle

Author:Norah Jones

“The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.”

Believe Heart Stills Philosophy Enemy Don't Believe Subtle Deceived

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.”

People Looks Television Scene Details Subtle Description Concrete Telephones Unlikely Telescopes

Author:Alexander Kluge

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