Tone Quotes · Page 10

What it does - the rebounding on both ends - it sets the tone defensively.

— David Lee

I think a perfect-color scarf really brings out your whole skin tone, lip color, and everything else.

— Jessica Jung

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

— Michael Treanor

I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.

— Shawn Mendes

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for…

— E. J. Hughes

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

— Arnold Bennett

If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.

— Jeb Bush

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of…

— Napoleon Hill

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling…

— George Eliot

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is…

— Nathan Goldstein

I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone.…

— Lewis Carroll

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in…

— Rudolf Steiner

With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check…

— John Petrucci

Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the…

— Leon G. Cooperman

I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight…

— Melina Marchetta

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis.…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the…

— Luke Bryan

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are…

— Steve Martin

Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy…

— Toby Jones

I didn't like the tone of Steve Jobs [movie] [2015] at all. It was very ugly, kind of rude. I didn't laugh,…

— Bun B

Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

— Jimmy Rollins

A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style...

— Scott Yanow

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

— Anatole Broyard

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

— Leonard Bernstein

If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can…

— Miles Davis

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

— Scott McClellan

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

— Gary Chapman

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

— James L. Brooks

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

— Jennifer Lopez

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

— Chris Bosh

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

— Alexander Payne

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

— Terry Gross

“you're just…You're everything" His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic.”

— Jessica Park