Tones Quotes

156 quotes by 136 authors

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I… — Terry Pratchett
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's… — Natasha Trethewey
Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. — David O. McKay
Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
Darwin speculated that â€œmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?"… — Joseph Heller
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide… — Lewis Carroll
Talkâ€”half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones") — Thomas Hardy
I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink… — Jeanette Winterson
Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. — Peter HÃ¸eg
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,… — Neil Gaiman

Who Wrote These Tones Quotes

136 authors contributed a total of 156 Tones Quotes, led by these top contributors: