The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don't think anyone in India would tone… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
If you don’t need my backsight,” she said to Kaleb, “then why am I here?” He rose to his feet and, placing… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed.… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library,"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which… — Richard Hastings Copy Share Image
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I had been wanting to work out with a trainer for a very long time. I always had a good cardio regimen,… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I have only a couple of Super 6s now, but I do have quite a few black-face Fenders around the studio. They… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much;… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to… — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
