Tone Quotes

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Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone… — Barack Obama
Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it… — Charles Brent
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and… — Unknown Author
We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and… — Geronimo
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of… — Georges Clemenceau
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of… — Marcel Proust
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maybe tone it down with the explosions — Michael Bay
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. — Phyllis McGinley
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend… — Paul Cezanne
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers… — Anthony Trollope
He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality… — Jeremy Northam
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. — Alex Faickney Osborn
She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is… — Allison Williams
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. — Stanley Gault
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

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