Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I'll have to adhere to these rules.

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.