I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence.… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric… — Spencer Smith Copy Share Image
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life,… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken… — Kelsey Grammer 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
When I first came out, I was wearing full-on traditional Nigerian wear. I got told by a lot of people that I… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make… — Will Gluck 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
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color.… — Wislawa Szymborska 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
This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. “You knocked him stupid,” he bellowed. “No,” Emily corrected in… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
