Tone Quotes · Page 4

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

— Terry Pratchett

I think I'm at my best when I'm on the ball, I'm feeling the game, I feel free, and I'm setting the…

— Lindsey Horan

I got the type of voice where I can hit a tone if I want, but I ain't trying to be Fetty…

— Kodak Black

Part of it, in my role now, more of a leader, just trying to set the tone.

— T. J. Watt

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

— Daniel D. Palmer

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

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

— Julie Harris

I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their…

— Brandon Stanton

Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms - and they tone your abs at the same time! I like…

— Cassie Scerbo

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would…

— Patricia C. Wrede

The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected…

— Nathan Goldstein

My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad…

— Ashton Kutcher

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows…

— John Landgraf

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the…

— David Tang

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

The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by…

— Joseph Parker

The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look…

— Gerhard Richter

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

Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection…

— Adolf Hitler

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the…

— Laura Benanti

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just…

— B.o.B

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

— Truman Capote

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

— Carlo Wolff

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

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

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Angie Dickinson

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

— Edith Konecky

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

— Peyton Reed

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

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

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

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

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

— Cornel West

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

— Neneh Cherry