Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

John Knowles

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

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

George Eliot

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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.

Steve Cook

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

Burgess Meredith

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

Jim Butcher

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Guy Ritchie

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

Aaron Boone

They completely set the tone for us tonight.

They just kind of went for the jugular right off the bat. ... They're going to come out and try to set the tone early.

Jimmy Rollins

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

Peter Sarsgaard

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Hindemith

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

J. K. Rowling

Always the tone of surpise.

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.

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)