Tone Quotes · Page 13

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

— Stokely Carmichael

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

— Lydia M. Child

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the…

— Samuel Butler

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

— Raoul Dufy

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone…

— Lev Yashin

Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

— Jay Moore

'Heavy Rain' was really close to a dark thriller, like 'Se7en.' 'Beyond' is different in terms of tone.

— David Cage

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly…

— Jose Gonzalez

The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime…

— Hector Berlioz

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the…

— Michael Azerrad

There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm…

— Paul Smoker

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue…

— Kevin Costner

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not…

— Kevin Hart

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink,…

— Dave Sim

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone…

— Ben Shahn

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and…

— Constance Hale

Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the…

— Barbara Woodhouse

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the…

— Danny Elfman

...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make…

— Tim Dorsey

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the…

— Winston Churchill

Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no!…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot…

— Ferdinand Marcos

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

— Julie Harris

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

— Djimon Hounsou

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

— Craig Zadan

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

— Melina Marchetta

The tone is which the question is asked ... the answer should also be given in that tone

— AJ

Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?

— John Flanagan

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

— Goswami Kriyananda

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

— Anonymous

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

— Joel Osteen

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

— Rachel Kushner

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

— John Milton

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

— William Cowper

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

— Tian Dayton

I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.

— Metro Boomin

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

— Guy Ritchie