Tone Quotes · Page 10

I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's.

— Amy Childs

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

— Bobbi Brown

I've tried to tone down some of my peppiness, but for those who don't like it, just as many do like it.

— Mariette Hartley

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

— Julia Leigh

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

— Goswami Kriyananda

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

— Anonymous

Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?

— John Flanagan

The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal…

— Mike Ness

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze…

— Bernard Berenson

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of…

— Michael Douglas

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I…

— Penn Jillette

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the…

— John Steinbeck

A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very…

— Billy Boyd

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art…

— Micah Perks

Russell... I love you. I thank you so much man. You made me better. You know, Your work ethic. I always wanted…

— Kevin Durant

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the…

— Luke Bryan

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are…

— Steve Martin

Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis.…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from…

— Abbi Glines

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the…

— Novalis

Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape…

— Janet Fitch

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

— Melina Marchetta

The tone is which the question is asked ... the answer should also be given in that tone

— AJ

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

— Julie Harris

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

— Djimon Hounsou

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

— Craig Zadan

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

— Marti Noxon

“The tone of voice changes the meaning of the word no matter if the definition stays the same”

— T.R.B. aka Truthly Speaking

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

— John Milton

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

— William Cowper

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

— Guy Ritchie

I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.

— Metro Boomin

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

— Tian Dayton

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

— Joel Osteen

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

— Rachel Kushner