“Do not blame my tone of voice, my lack of patience, or my bad mood on PMS. It's not my period that's… — Jenny O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Your sword is made out of your grandmother’s bones?” “Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“defensive. "I don't want to talk about it." "Trin-" "Arthur, cool it." Trin ordered in his softest tone of voice.” — AlTonya Washington Copy Share Image
I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want. — Tyler, The Creator Copy Share Image
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with… — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
“Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
“You're such a prude, she would say to me, in a tone of voice that was on the whole pleased. She liked… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You can make your hair perfect, buy a $700 dress. But you are still you. You still do crazy things when no… — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why are you so keen to get rid of us, Munshi sahib?” “Because, Morrison sahib, we wish to order our own affairs.… — Simon Raven Sound the Retreat Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Cap’n don’t like us tellin’ tales,” another man added. “That’s just ‘round his girl, is all,” the storyteller replied. Camille ceased breathing… — Angie Frazier Copy Share Image
“One of the study’s major findings was that in the successful relationships, positive attention outweighed negative on a daily basis by a… — Robert Maurer Copy Share Image
“Fifth, consider demeanor. The young secularists of New York City are extremely sensitive to anything that smacks of artifice to them. Anything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The Wolf And The Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Remember that, in any encounter, the only thing you can control is your own actions and reactions. You cannot dictate the actions… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The boy speaks up. When he does, there's such a tender quality to his voice that I can't help looking up at… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“ 7. Energy. Your degree of personal energy and enthusiasm has a great deal to do with whether or not someone will… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“They rode for a while in silence, a tiny island in the smoky stream of marching men. Then Lee said slowly, in… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The tone of voice changes the meaning of the word no matter if the definition stays the same” — T.R.B. aka Truthly Speaking Copy Share Image
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
