Tone Quotes · Page 7

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

— Jeff Van Gundy

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

— Jack Nicholson

From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

— Shing02

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

— Emanuel Cleaver

I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

— Maria Callas

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

— Lilith Saintcrow

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

— Beatrice Wood

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

— Paul Auster

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue…

— Kevin Costner

There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm…

— Paul Smoker

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

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

I did read all my old diaries and was quite surprised by the overwhelming melancholic tone. I remember things being rosier than…

— Emily Giffin

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

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they…

— Aime Martin

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each…

— Pierre Coupey

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.…

— John Henry Newman

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and…

— Constance Hale

Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork…

— Sándor Márai

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone…

— Ray Davies

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own…

— Edward Bellamy

First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that…

— Dan Savage

I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep…

— T.C. Boyle

After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all…

— Greg Noll

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

— Julia Quinn

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

— Paul Hindemith

“tone. “All right,” she said, “but how do I go about being a boy?”

— John Steinbeck

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

— Lord Byron

Being the starter, everybody is looking at you. You have to set the tone.

— Dennis Schroder

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

— Sophie Dahl

With 'Opening Credit,' we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

— Goldlink

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

— Kenneth Edmonds

It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.

— Shawn Levy

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

— Rebecca Ferguson

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

— Philomena Kwao

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

— Anonymous

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

— Jack Layton