Tone Quotes
You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.
in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did.
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.
I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.
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 the point that it's almost a companion piece
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.
I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.