Tone Quotes
857 Tone quotes by 657 unique authors
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The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these…
— Jennifer Granholm
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Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as…
— John Corvino
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I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.
— Theophilus London
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A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just…
— Billy Boyd
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When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends…
— Criss Jami
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We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone…
— Matthew Simpson
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We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have…
— Stephen Leacock
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to…
— John Keats
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The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.
— Carlton Cuse
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I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom…
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
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If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain…
— David First
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If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
— Guy Ritchie
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Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order…
— Ron Fournier
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Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on…
— Ron Fournier
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
— Stephen Fry
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life…
— Margaret Fuller
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In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
— Matt Groening
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Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind…
— Matt Groening
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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain…
— Joan Collins
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The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
— Mason Cooley
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Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will…
— Leonardo da Vinci
Who Wrote These Tone Quotes
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