Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
When I first came out, I was wearing full-on traditional Nigerian wear. I got told by a lot of people that I… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Incorporating travel, elements from different cultures and locales, is a great way to establish the overall tone and theme for a soiree. — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence.… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric… — Spencer Smith Copy Share Image
The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says --… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is… — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and… — John Legend Copy Share Image
