Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Always the tone of surpise.

J. K. Rowling

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.

J. K. Rowling

I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

George Herbert

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

George Herbert

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

George Herbert

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

George Herbert

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Horace Mann

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

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.

Paul Gauguin

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Pierre Schaeffer

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

Jodi Picoult

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

Paul Hindemith

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

John Green

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

Marya Hornbacher

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

Marshall McLuhan

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Markus Zusak

If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.

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.

Marcel Proust

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

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.

Norton Juster

Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

Matt Ryan

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

Henry James

She is written in a foreign tongue.

Henry James

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

John Knowles

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

John Tesh

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

John Schlesinger

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)