One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“The tone of voice changes the meaning of the word no matter if the definition stays the same” — T.R.B. aka Truthly Speaking Copy Share Image
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Some players, they have all their licks memorized. They think about what they're going to play, but I try to think about… — Charlie Musselwhite Copy Share Image
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so… — Dev Patel Copy Share Image
I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I did read all my old diaries and was quite surprised by the overwhelming melancholic tone. I remember things being rosier than… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we… — Eubie Blake Copy Share Image
Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance.… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise… — Samantha Stosur Copy Share Image
I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read… — Lone Scherfig Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear… — Eran Kolirin Copy Share Image
I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and… — Aaron Ruell Copy Share Image
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image