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  • Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

  • 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.

    Mom   Dad   Thinking  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

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

    Jobs   Style   Cameras  
  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

    Play   Pageantry   Roles  
  • My style is a mix and match of everything. Like I said, It's Play Cloths, it's Saint Laurent, and I know I sort of won when everything can be understated, it can be three different brands, and you can't really see what it is and then you just ask, "Well damn that looks good, what is that?"

    Play   Style   Different  
    Source: theneptunes.org
  • Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 28, 2016
  • ...so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.

    Neale Donald Walsch (2008). “Happier Than God”, p.17, Jaico Publishing House
  • The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

    "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • 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.

    Art   Expression   Hands  
  • 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.

    Play   Needs   Attention  
    Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.
  • Accessories are crucial. A great bag and a piece of statement jewelry are the fastest way to elevate an otherwise understated look.

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

    Kitchen   Kind   Canvas  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

    "Bret McKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords". Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2007.
  • But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

    War   Gone   Violence  
  • 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.

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

  • Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

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

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

    Fall   Sleep   Views  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan
  • I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

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

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • I've always gone for the more understated look.

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

    Beautiful   Pain   Drama  
  • Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

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

  • 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.

    Men   Jeans   Design  
    "Ralph Lauren on a Life in Fashion and His Newest Dream". Interview with Dirk Standen, dirkstanden.com. May 2, 2015.
  • The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

    Funny   Humorous   Japan  
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