Tone Quotes · Page 13

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

— Margaret Fuller

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

— Danny Elfman

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun…

— Amy Poehler

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

— Samuel Beckett

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

— Aldous Huxley

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

— Carl Schmitt

'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.

— Charles Kelley

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

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

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

— Michael Douglas

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Penn Jillette

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed…

— James Gates Percival

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.…

— Jane Austen

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which…

— Anthony Trollope

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all…

— Lin Yutang

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

— Kevin Durant

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;…

— Matthew Arnold

If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for…

— Randall Jarrell

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone…

— Bryan Cranston

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my…

— Joan Baez

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

— Abbi Glines

A Field in England' to me was a mind blowing experience. It's such a special tone.

— Gareth Evans

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.

— David O. McKay

I cleanse, tone and moisturize, and always take off my make-up before I go to bed.

— Daisy Lowe

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.

— Kyle MacLachlan

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

— Paul Cezanne

Ouch,” Jace said in her ear, his tone indignant. “You elbowed me.” “Well, you landed on me.

— Cassandra Clare

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

— Harvey Dunn

I really like films that don't let the score influence the tone too much.

— Riley Stearns

I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.

— Bill Skarsgard

“Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

— Todd Phillips

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan