Tone Quotes · Page 48

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…

— Gerhard Richter

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which…

— Anthony Trollope

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

— Paul Bourget

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly…

— Jose Gonzalez

In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the…

— Henri Matisse

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

— Emanuel Cleaver

The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -…

— Werner Herzog

Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact…

— Charles Loomis Dana

The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely…

— Jennifer Weiner

The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear…

— Eran Kolirin

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency…

— Jeff Baena

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone…

— Ti West

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit…

— George Ripley

“A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he…

— Anonymous

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the…

— Michael Azerrad

With 'Opening Credit,' we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

— Goldlink

So you’re telling me that right now I’m responsible for Acheron’s beloved pet and the favorite sister of the Fates? (Zarek) Tell…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You the Dark-Hunter?" Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?" "I don't like your tone." "And I dont't like you. Now that…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so…

— Wassily Kandinsky

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan…

— John Heilemann