Tone Quotes · Page 7

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

— Harvey Dunn

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

— Twiggy

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

— Deb Caletti

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

— Neneh Cherry

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

— Michelle Obama

I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can't really take credit for it, though - all the members of my…

— Michelle Monaghan

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces…

— Carrie Brownstein

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do…

— David McCullough

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You have the…

— Diana Rowland

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up…

— Max Winkler

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it…

— Michel Gondry

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use…

— Ralph Steadman

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its…

— John Quincy Adams

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered,…

— Marguerite Young

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange…

— Jerome K. Jerome

One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and…

— Garth Kravits

When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it…

— Corey Taylor

In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where…

— Joscelyn Godwin

When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my…

— Lewis Carroll

This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France.…

— Conan O'Brien

You are setting the tone all the time. No matter what, you have to remember that.

— Juan Soto

I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and…

— Rachelle Lefevre

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

— Franz Liszt

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

— William Carlos Williams

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

— Edith Konecky

When you're a TV star, you pretty much set the tone, and on 'Police Woman,' we goofed around all the time.

— Angie Dickinson

I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.

— Peyton Reed

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

— Steve Zahn

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

— Grenville Kleiser

I have to have my lashes. For me, it all sets the tone: I'm getting ready to go to work.

— Michelle Carter

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

— Marley Shelton

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

— Billy Taylor

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

— Julie Harris

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

— Thomas Hood

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

— Willis Gaylord Clark