Tone Quotes · Page 12

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

— Bobbi Brown

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

— W. D. Snodgrass

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

— John Fogerty

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

— Bonnie Raitt

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

— Gil Scott-Heron

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I learn the most about people asking them what they want their ringtone/text tone to be.

— Spencer Pratt

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human…

— Mark Twain

In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone…

— Anthony Scaramucci

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone and caterpillar eyebrows,…

— AJ Lee

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and…

— Louis C. K

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean…

— Lewis Carroll

A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end. “Yeah? Did you see what…

— Josh Lanyon

And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents…

— Louis Untermeyer

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a…

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep…

— T.C. Boyle

After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all…

— Greg Noll

You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and…

— Al Hirschfeld

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes…

— Jessica Day George

Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable…

— Matthew Arnold

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.…

— John Henry Newman

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.

— Jeff Beck

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being…

— Tyler Hoechlin

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I have no ability to develop muscle tone. I could do situps all day and still look like a condom full of…

— Dana Gould

If people wake up and go, "Oh, where's the coffee," or "Oh, another day," that does not set a good tone for…

— Louise Hay

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

— Thomas Hardy

He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.

— Karen Marie Moning

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

— Eric Clapton

Wear a foundation one shade lighter than your skin tone - you can always make it darker, but not lighter, once it's…

— Michelle Keegan

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

— Colin Greenwood

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose…

— Lauren Mayberry

I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body.

— Sherilyn Fenn

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

— Jenna Fischer

Go on,” he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it…

— Nalini Singh

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

— George Eliot