I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
So... you're an assassin?" Dave asked incredulously. "Why do I feel like you'd have used the same tone if I'd just confessed… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are.… — John Byrne Copy Share Image
He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. “I didn’t ask for this. But I felt something in that back room… — Scott Speer Copy Share Image
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no… — Ian Chappell Copy Share Image
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I… — Alda Merini 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
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
It's too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new… — Arj Barker 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
We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What about Isabelle?" Simon asked. "Where is she?" The humor, such as it was, left Jace's expression. "She won't come out of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
As goofy as it sounds, I try to sing in the morning. It's hard both to sing and to maintain a grouchy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole.… — Richard Lloyd Copy Share Image
The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn't expect in jobs that… — Kelly McCreary Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
![“I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story…” quote by Len Wiseman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5a/len-wiseman-18620_bits_i-had-no-intention-of-replacing-arnold-s_1961572.jpg)
![“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
