Tone Quotes · Page 33

I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but…

— Michael Faraday

Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger…

— Anonymous

I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of…

— Pauline Oliveros

As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly…

— Will Schwalbe

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,…

— Michel de Montaigne

I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person…

— Masashi Kishimoto

Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing…

— Francis Crick

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights…

— L. Ron Hubbard

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in…

— Suzy Kassem

We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble…

— Geronimo

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even…

— William Crookes

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close…

— Dane Cook

She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they…

— Anonymous

The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it…

— Harriet Lerner

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.…

— Anonymous

It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which…

— Wendy Kaminer

When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality.…

— Phil Elvrum

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his…

— James Boswell

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of…

— Albert Schweitzer

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this…

— Emile Durkheim

The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,…

— Janet Malcolm

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse…

— Carl Sagan

Like the kind of voter who has been turned off to [Donald] Trump, who would normally vote Republican in an election like…

— Steve Kornacki

“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence…

— Anonymous

The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many…

— Tom Hiddleston

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of…

— David Hilbert

When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to…

— Dan Gable

England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in…

— Peter Senge

The top 25 at every company really set the tone. Everyone watches them. They need to be present and focused. No slackers…

— Michael J. Silverstein

He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, 'because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened,…

— Lewis Carroll

Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to…

— Michael Sheen

At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good.…

— Trevor Noah

We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication…

— Stephen Leacock

There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was…

— Jeff Bridges

I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false,…

— Julian Beck

I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know…

— Dana Fox

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe