Understated Quotes

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

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Way

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• Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

  Bob Riley

  Perseverance, Virtue

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

  Simon Schama

  War, Gone, Violence

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• What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

  Lara St. John

  Passion, Sensual, Energy

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 28, 2016

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• Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

  Vera Wang

  Play, Pageantry, Roles

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• People that complete other people's vision are understated.

  Bjork

  People, Vision

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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

  Warren Buffett

  Prevention, Pounds, Cures

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

  Ralph Lauren

  Men, Jeans, Design

  "Ralph Lauren on a Life in Fashion and His Newest Dream". Interview with Dirk Standen, dirkstanden.com. May 2, 2015.

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• I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  Missing, Black, Should

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

  Sade Adu

  Way, Over The Top, Wacky

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• I've always gone for the more understated look.

  Nancy Reagan

  Looks, Gone

  "A Look Back at Nancy Reagan's Influential First Lady Style" by Sophia Chabbott, www.glamour.com. March 6, 2016.

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

  Bret McKenzie

  Thinking, Play, Sad And Happy

  "Bret McKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords". Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2007.

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• Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

  Molly O'Neill

  Planning, Elegance, Backbone

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

  Simon Weston

  Live Life, Journey, Who I Am

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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.

  Duane Elgin

  Art, Expression, Hands

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Sleep, Views

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

  Lily Tomlin

  Different, Comedy, Reason

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. April 26, 2006.

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• 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.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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

  Christopher Reeve

  Kitchen, Kind, Canvas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Demetri Martin

  Play, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.

  Kenneth Turan

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

  Larry Page

  Couple, Technology, Years

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: 'Understand Everything'". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

  David Lauren

  Jobs, Style, Cameras

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