Tone Quotes · Page 4

I think tone gives birth to the story.

— Etgar Keret

“Always the tone of surprise.”

— J.K. Rowling

It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].

— Deborah Kaplan

All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

“Tone is the hardest part of saying no.”

— Jonathan Price

A lot of TV and film commits to one tone.

— Reed Morano

“I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,”

— Tui T. Sutherland

I don't like that tone of voice you're texting me in.

— Anonymous

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

— John David Washington

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

— W. S. Gilbert

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

— John Sununu

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

— John Townsend Trowbridge

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

— Robert Holden

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

— Famke Janssen

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

— Samuel Lover

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

— Lee Konitz

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number…

— Gustav Mahler

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any…

— Gloria Feldt

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone.…

— Sarah Sutton

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make…

— Lauren Oliver

I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of…

— Jane Pauley

It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and…

— Seamus Heaney

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid…

— Kyrsten Sinema

We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim…

— Alex Kurtzman

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman…

— Whittaker Chambers

A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged…

— Walter J. Phillips

It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably,…

— Louise Glück

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I…

— Sue Wicks

The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the…

— Nelson Mandela

He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No…

— Cassandra Clare

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.

— Mary H.K. Choi

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

— Paul Gauguin

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

— Nancy Reagan

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

— John Landgraf

I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.

— Steve Kornacki

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

— Jeff Van Gundy

He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added.

— Brandon Mull