Tone Quotes - page 4

By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. (Glenn Miller)
And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning. View quote
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. View quote
Henry Mayhew
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. View quote
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
People have had certain ­assumptions in the past about ­Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively ­reduce. View quote
Jeremy Hunt
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 which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page. View quote
Jeremy Northam
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' View quote
John Sayles
I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier. View quote
Jorge Cruise
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone. View quote
Julie Harris
I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time. View quote
Linton Kwesi Johnson
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. (Marguerite Young)
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own. View quote
Ne-Yo
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard. View quote
Ned Beauman
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world. View quote
Roma Downey
When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing. View quote
Ray Davies
The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males. View quote
Sharon Gless
Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun. View quote
Sarah Sutton
She said, "We're detectives" in the tone of voice that someone might say, "Making you happy isn't making me happy" View quote
Daniel Handler
Yours of July 27 is received. It confirms the accounts we receive from others that the infractions of the embargo in Maine and Massachusetts are open. I have removed Pope, of New Bedford, for worse than negligence. The collector of Sullivan is on the totter. The Tories of Boston openly threaten insurrection if their importation of flour is stopped. The next post will stop it. I fear your Governor [Sullivan] is not up to the tone of these parricides, and I hope on the first symptom of an open opposition of the law by force you will fly to the scene, and aid in suppressing any commotion. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Umm,” said Ooo, dubiously. "Do I detect a questioning tone in your voice?” inquired the bird tartly. "Which might imply that you find a flaw in my reasoning? (Lin Carter)
I am not complaining, mind you,” the simurgh was saying in a grumpy, peevish tone of voice a while later, "I was merely pointing out that when one must tamper with the forces of nature, it is better to err on the side of caution and of prudence, than to be too liberal. View quote
Lin Carter
"I don't understand what you mean,” I confessed in a baffled tone. Niamh gave me a long, cool, faintly amused glance. "Don't you? No, I can see that you do not,” she said. And with that she rolled over, her face turned from me, and fell asleep...leaving me staring at the ceiling, completely mystified, pondering the inexplicable perversities of the female mind. View quote
Lin Carter
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any potential threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within which, opposed to all of our great traditions, have gravely weakened the structure and tone of our American way of life. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of Captain Brown, I would fain do my part to correct the tone and the statements of the newspapers, and of my countrymen generally, respecting his character and actions. It costs us nothing to be just. We can at least express our sympathy with, and admiration of, him and his companions, and that is what I now propose to do. View quote
Henry David Thoreau