I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If you don’t need my backsight,” she said to Kaleb, “then why am I here?” He rose to his feet and, placing… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres… — David Gregory Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
During the game, there has to be a moment where you have to set the tone. You have to let them know… — Ezekiel Elliott Copy Share Image
We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk,… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone. — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock,… — Marisa Miller Copy Share Image
For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life,… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
