Tone Quotes · Page 6

When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

— Neneh Cherry

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

— Michelle Obama

You are setting the tone all the time. No matter what, you have to remember that.

— Juan Soto

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

— Twiggy

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

— Deb Caletti

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot…

— Pauline Oliveros

A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each…

— Pope Agapetus I

I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don't know…

— Hillary Clinton

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects…

— Guy Pearce

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I…

— Louis Malle

Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep…

— William Morris Hunt

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely…

— Peter Bayne

I myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, and I would invite my Democrat friends - and…

— Chris Collins

Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the…

— Tove Lo

I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and…

— Rachel Hurd-Wood

Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we'll miss something important. There is a growing movement…

— Leatrice Eiseman

To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't…

— Sarah MacLean

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to…

— Charles Dickens

“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what…

— Roberto Bolaño

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You…

— Jake M. Johnson

A cleanse, tone and moisturize always sets me up for the day.

— Jonathan Bailey

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get…

— Chris Powell

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

— John Quincy Adams

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

— Stokely Carmichael

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

— John Sununu

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

— W. S. Gilbert

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

— John David Washington

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

— John Eaton

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

— Henri Matisse

When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.

— Christine Feehan

You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-

— Cassandra Clare

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for…

— Eddie Van Halen

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

— Grover Norquist

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

— Kenneth Edmonds

Magazines don't go far enough to be inclusive and have at least have one model representing every major skin tone.

— Philomena Kwao