Top 198 Nuance Quotes & Sayings

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

We're living in post-nuance online times.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.

Instagram doesn't leave a lot of room for nuance.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

We paint small town America with a really broad stroke. There's a lot more nuance to these towns than, I think, the world knows.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

You can't wait for someone to discover you; you have to just get on and do it. Have confidence that directing is a very suitable job for a woman - with our gift for collaboration, listening, and reading the nuance of things.

I want to give my characters nuance.

I think nuance is very important to have in the conversation, nuance that's been lacking for a long time. A lot of voting organizations only exist every four years, putting all this money into "your voice is important!" Wouldn't that be nice, if that's all it took? Voting is the first political action for most people. But if you don't follow up then voting is not actual participation but just a one-off.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

I consider myself a basketball aficionado and really understand and know the nuance. I'm a fan of the game. But more than an everyday fan. I love the nuance of the game.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to act with your whole body.

We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.