Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

This is a first step. There are still a ton of regulations.

A lot of this has to do with the Tony Awards.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Jamaica Kincaid

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Jennifer Weiner

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jello Biafra

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.

George Eliot

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

George Herbert

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

George Herbert

Faire language grates not the tongue.

George R. R. Martin

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

Eugene Ormandy

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

Jamie Moyer

Sometimes you've got to put up more zeroes than the other team. Tonight I wasn't able to do that.

That's why tonight was so big. We've got to go back there and play Grenada.

That's just the way he plays. You just have to tone him down sometimes.

Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

The tone that they would take in e-mail was pretty astounding.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

There's tons more to come. This is just the first wave.

I tried to do what I do. I tried to go out there and play defense. Fortunately, tonight it worked.

Jamie Foxx

I told Tony I would look after her.

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

Steve Cook

That really set the tone for our offense. It's been that way for us all year.

No, it's early. I'll be fine. If I go 4-for-4 tonight I'll be at .300.

Corey Stoll

There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.

Burgess Meredith

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.