Unsubtle Quotes

#1. I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

A.S. Byatt

#2. I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Roland Barthes

#3. The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.

Anne Ursu

#4. If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.

Christina Engela

#5. In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.

Michael Lewis

#6. Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.

Nick Harkaway

#7. They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

Marcel Proust

#9. If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

Herta Muller

#10. The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.

Morihei Ueshiba

#11. From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

Pope Francis

#12. When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

Will.i.am

#13. I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness

Frank O'Hara

#14. You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Prashant Chopra

#15. Life should always be like this ... Like lingering over a good meal.

Janet Fitch

#16. I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.

Jim Gaffigan

#17. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?

Orson Scott Card

#20. I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

Peter Orner

#21. A: Anyone who looks like she does has to be somebody ...
B: What does she look like?
A: An ice cream. I had a spoon I would have eaten her.

Elmore Leonard

#22. The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon