Tone Quotes · Page 5

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

— Anonymous

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

— Rebecca Ferguson

It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.

— Shawn Levy

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

— Kenneth Edmonds

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

— Kate Fox

Clinique's Chubby Stick Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Chunky Cherry is perfect for people with my skin tone.

— Hannah Simone

I work out one-and-a-half hours a day, five times a week to strengthen my muscles and increase tone.

— Ananya Birla

A lot of times when I record, I tend to care so much about the delivery, the tone, the melody, and everything.…

— Jackson Wang

I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can't really take credit for it, though - all the members of my…

— Michelle Monaghan

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces…

— Carrie Brownstein

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do…

— David McCullough

Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You have the…

— Diana Rowland

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use…

— Ralph Steadman

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it…

— Michel Gondry

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about…

— Ben Gibbard

“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.…

— Michael Finkel

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm Magnus Bane." he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between…

— Cassandra Clare

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same. It's just that you…

— Robert Pattinson

Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love." Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't…

— Nalini Singh

Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be…

— Grenville Kleiser

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…

— G. Stanley Hall

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

— Tori Amos

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

— Ryan Tannehill

“Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring.

— Lubov Azria

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

— Harvey Fierstein

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

— David Leitch

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

— Sylvia Plath

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

— Tyler, The Creator

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

— Gary Ross

Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.

— Paula Pell

No one expects the tone of an election to be mild-mannered, least of all a presidential one.

— Susie Dent

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

— Jules Verne

There aren't, like, four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.

— Jason Momoa

I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside…

— Eliza Acton

I think it's important for athletes to set a tone in a way that we're looking to build bridges.

— P.K. Subban

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

— Deb Caletti