Tone Quotes

857 Tone quotes by 657 unique authors

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and… — Peter Watts
My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch… — Emilia Clarke
I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to… — Tobe Hooper
It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at… — David Cross
That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should… — Charles Mingus
The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males, — Sharon Gless
I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal… — Vincent Gallo
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started… — Ray Charles
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. — Ann Coulter
With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best! — Harry Connick, Jr.
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get… — Eddie Cahill
Ali Woodson was one of the few Iconic Soul-Singers left from the Motown Era that could STILL sell out a crowd, light up a party,… — Unknown Author
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Unknown Author
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community. — Stokely Carmichael
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means… — Cecil Taylor
You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations. — John Quincy Adams
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me… — Elizabeth Hardwick
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades,… — Wassily Kandinsky
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves. — Margaret Fuller
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself… — Isidore of Seville
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every… — Grenville Kleiser
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. — Joseph Priestley

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