Tone Quotes · Page 5

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

— Jack Nicholson

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

— Frederick Douglass

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

— Rebecca Miller

My mom's amazing 'mom skills' have set the tone for my sister Muffy to be an amazing mother herself.

— Natalya Neidhart

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males,

— Sharon Gless

I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

— Annika Sorenstam

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

— Lilith Saintcrow

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

— Beatrice Wood

I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That…

— Jim Rash

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro…

— Ronnie Montrose

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a…

— Beverly Sills

I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk…

— Jim Butcher

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving…

— George Ratliff

James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's…

— Robert Trujillo

Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the…

— Walter Pater

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences…

— Karen Thompson Walker

That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned…

— David Benioff

people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's…

— Daniel Goleman

For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed…

— Elizabeth McCracken

Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place…

— Jeaniene Frost

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a…

— Hugh Jackman

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of…

— Barton Gellman

Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And…

— Edgar Guest

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

— Paul Auster

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

— Julia Quinn

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

— Shing02

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

— Emanuel Cleaver

I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

— Maria Callas

Being the starter, everybody is looking at you. You have to set the tone.

— Dennis Schroder

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

— Sophie Dahl

With 'Opening Credit,' we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

— Goldlink

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

— Paul Hindemith

“tone. “All right,” she said, “but how do I go about being a boy?”

— John Steinbeck

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

— Lord Byron

I've just got to remind myself that it's hard to express tone and sarcasm and stuff through text.

— Kyle Larson

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Sometimes the entire tone of an episode can be reshaped in directing or editing or acting.

— Bear McCreary