Tone Quotes · Page 5

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

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

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

— Franz Liszt

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

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

— David Tang

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones…

— Isaac D'Israeli

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing…

— Loren Bouchard

God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley.

— Anonymous

That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material…

— Jonathan Dee

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and…

— Henry Adams

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good…

— Mike Pence

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the…

— John Steinbeck

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

Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my…

— Joan Baez

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

I have to have my lashes. For me, it all sets the tone: I'm getting ready to go to work.

— Michelle Carter

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

You are setting the tone all the time. No matter what, you have to remember that.

— Juan Soto

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

India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.

— Greig Fraser

'You Should Be Here' set the tone that, 'Alright everybody, I want you to listen to this album.

— Cole Swindell

You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

— Jeff Foxworthy