Nuances Quotes

• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Men
  • Prophet
  • Quack

• You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Up
  • Play
  • Infections

• I don't think we missed America by that much. It was a huge-volume election that didn't turn overwhelmingly one way or another, which was what we said was going to happen. There were some nuances, but I don't think we missed that much.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • America
  • Election
  • Nuances

• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  

  Elie Faure
  • Air
  • Shadows
  • Symphony

• Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Design
  • Capture
  • Nuances

• We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Director
  • Colours
  • Nuances

• Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Life
  • Work
  • Axioms

• News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Poetry
  • News
  • Designed

• And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Words
  • Loses
  • Nuances