Browsing Topic Best Understated Quotes

People that complete other people’s vision are understated.

I’m not over the top; I’m not wacky. I’m fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

My acting’s very understated. I think my sad and happy don’t play that differently onscreen.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it’s done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I’m not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.

I think it’s so much sexier to be understated. It’s more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling. The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe, that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point not just through assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but also personality.

Accessories are crucial. A great bag and a piece of statement jewelry are the fastest way to elevate an otherwise understated look.

The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn’t clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

I like to live life in an understated way because that’s who I am – an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.