Tone famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
-- Adam McKay -
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
-- Alexander Payne -
When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.
-- Amy Poehler -
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
-- Andrew Bird -
I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.
-- Andy Milonakis -
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
-- Anna Camp -
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
-- Anna Godbersen -
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.
-- Aristide Maillol -
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
-- Bela Bartok -
The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.
-- Ben Weinman -
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
-- Burgess Meredith -
I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
-- Carl Schmitt -
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
-- Carlo Wolff -
The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.
-- Carlton Cuse -
Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
-- Caroline Llewellyn -
The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
-- Christian Dior -
We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.
-- Claude Monet -
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
-- Colin Greenwood -
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
-- Cornel West -
Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
-- Danny Elfman -
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.
-- Derek Hough -
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!
-- Dev Patel -
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
-- E. J. Hughes -
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.
-- Edith Konecky -
The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
-- Emanuel Cleaver -
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy -
Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.
-- Frank Hanny -
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
-- Franz Grillparzer -
If...[Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.
-- George Perle -
My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
-- Gil Scott-Heron -
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.
-- Gloria Feldt -
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
-- Grenville Kleiser -
If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
-- Guy Ritchie -
With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.
-- Harvey Dunn -
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
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
-- Henry Mayhew -
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
-- Hoda Kotb -
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.
-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite -
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
-- Irvine Welsh -
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 revolves under the tone of that harmony.
-- Isidore of Seville -
Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...
-- J.R. Ward -
Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.
-- Jack Layton -
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.
-- Jake Johannsen -
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
-- James Purefoy -
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.
-- Jean Genet -
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
-- Jenna Fischer -
So... you're an assassin?" Dave asked incredulously. "Why do I feel like you'd have used the same tone if I'd just confessed to being a stripper?" I demanded. "Sorry," he said quickly. "I'm just surprised, is all.
-- Jennifer Rardin -
The way I see it,†she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.†She said “you kids†in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches
-- Jennifer Weiner -
Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.
-- Jenny Eclair -
The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.
-- Jenny McCarthy -
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.
-- Jeremy Northam -
Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks just as many questions as Galem." "I'm sorry," Oliver said weakly. The old woman nodded. "You are forgiven," she pronounced in a queenly tones.
-- Jessica Day George -
Never take your eyes off them,†Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?
-- John Flanagan -
the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
-- John Knowles -
Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.
-- John M. Geddes -
And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
-- John Milton -
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
-- John Oliver -
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
-- John Ralston Saul -
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
-- John Singer Sargent -
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
-- John Sununu -
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
-- John Turturro -
I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.
-- Jose Padilha -
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?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted
-- Joseph Heller -
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
-- Joseph Priestley -
As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
-- Jules Verne -
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
-- Julie Harris -
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
-- Julie Harris -
Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!†I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. “What?†I asked. Leif shook a finger and said in a low, menacing tone, “If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you.†“And I’ll pull out your goatee,†Gunnar added. “Lolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk,†I explained to them. “U doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it.
-- Kevin Hearne -
For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.
-- Kirk Hammett -
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
-- Lafcadio Hearn -
I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.
-- Laini Taylor -
Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.
-- Leon G. Cooperman -
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
-- Lewis Carroll -
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
-- Lewis Carroll -
Take the tone of the company you are in.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
-- Lydia M. Child -
I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?
-- Melina Marchetta -
You can run,†Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.
-- Nalini Singh -
Go on,†he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you.
-- Nalini Singh -
I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
-- Nancy Reagan -
Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.
-- Paul Bourget -
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
-- Paul Di Filippo -
There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
-- Paul Hindemith -
Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.
-- Paul Schrader -
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.
-- Penn Jillette
