Tone Quotes - page 14

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it. (Babyface)
In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.' View quote
Beth Ditto
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck. View quote
Brenda Ueland
At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again. View quote
Brett Hoebel
I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense. View quote
Charlene Tilton
People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all. View quote
Cherie Lunghi
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death. View quote
Carmen Dell'Orefice
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. View quote
Carrie Brownstein
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. View quote
David McCullough
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. (Djimon Hounsou)
The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit. View quote
Dwight Schultz
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it. View quote
Elizabeth Edwards
The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country. View quote
Emanuel Cleaver
Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body. View quote
Erin Heatherton
When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture. View quote
Francis Chan
Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice. View quote
Frank Robinson
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. View quote
George Ripley
I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year. View quote
Gillian Jacobs
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. View quote
Grenville Kleiser
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising. (H. Lee Scott, Jr.)
You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests. View quote
Henry Irving
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say. View quote
Hoda Kotb
Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor. View quote
J. B. Smoove