Tone Quotes · Page 10

Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.

— Nalini Singh

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

— Tamas Vasary

I really like films that don't let the score influence the tone too much.

— Riley Stearns

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

— Arnold Bennett

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

— Jimmy Rollins

If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.

— Jeb Bush

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

— Michael Treanor

You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.” Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?” You…

— J.R. Ward

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper…

— Cynthia Heimel

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given…

— Claude Monet

I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone…

— Eric Church

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,…

— Franz Grillparzer

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and…

— Jennifer Granholm

The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,'…

— Jason Segel

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those…

— Mason Cooley

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A…

— Billy Collins

I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but…

— Michael Faraday

If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why…

— William Mortensen

The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make…

— George Nolfi

Well, it’s no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when you’re only one of the things in his dream. You…

— Lewis Carroll

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who…

— Ayn Rand

I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.

— Shawn Mendes

I think a perfect-color scarf really brings out your whole skin tone, lip color, and everything else.

— Jessica Jung

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for…

— E. J. Hughes

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

— Peter Høeg

I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

— John Petrucci

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a…

— Rodney Dangerfield

What it does - the rebounding on both ends - it sets the tone defensively.

— David Lee

I just think that Stephen Miller is completely tone deaf when it comes to reforming our immigration system.

— Mike Coffman

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

— John Oliver

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Paul Bourget

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

— Alexander Payne

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

— Chris Bosh

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

— Jennifer Lopez

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

— Terry Gross