Tone Quotes · Page 11

“you're just…You're everything" His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic.”

— Jessica Park

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

— Leonard Bernstein

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

— Anatole Broyard

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

— James L. Brooks

If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can…

— Miles Davis

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

— Gary Chapman

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should…

— Colin Firth

The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot…

— David Giuntoli

Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four…

— Doug Dawson

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just…

— Cherie Lunghi

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who…

— Steve Vai

I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's…

— Katrina Bowden

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,'…

— John Sayles

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it…

— Anonymous

'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone…

— Jane Smiley

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s…

— Anonymous

Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork…

— Sándor Márai

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own…

— Edward Bellamy

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone…

— Ray Davies

First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that…

— Dan Savage

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

— Scott McClellan

A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style...

— Scott Yanow

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.

— Chris Martin

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

— Craig Finn

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

— Andrew Solomon

Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.

— Dov Davidoff

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

— Gary Cherone

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

— Carlton Cuse

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

— Tom Holland

It's funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my…

— Nadia Ali

I've tried to tone down some of my peppiness, but for those who don't like it, just as many do like it.

— Mariette Hartley

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

— Julia Leigh

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's.

— Amy Childs

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals…

— Alice Hoffman