'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy… — Adam Thirlwell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a really musical house where all of my brothers and sisters could sing, but I couldn't sing. Not… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
So, as opposed to getting people in to read the script and read scenes with me, what I wanted to do was… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and… — Rahki Copy Share Image
Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
![“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
