Tone Quotes - Page 18

• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Men, Heat

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• Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

  Chris Bosh

  Leader, Peers, Looks

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

  Grace Jones

  Thinking, Stronger, Males

  "Grace Jones Gets In Touch With Her Masculinity" by ween.com, September 5, 2000.

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• Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Writing, Tunes, Composer

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• If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Stories, Actors

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• 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.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Consistent, Naive

  "Not Quite Human: Michel Gondry Makes The Leap To Features With 'Human Nature'". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2002.

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• I don't look at sports as something which merely tones up the body. I look at it as a tool of education that stimulates the mind and brings in a culture of discipline.

  Narendra Modi

  Sports, Discipline, Mind

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Long, Giving, Vitality

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Philosophy

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• Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Touching

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• My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid down the law. It's not her words, it's her tone that sticks with me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mom, Dad, Yelling

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• I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Character, Voice

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.

  Allen Lacy

  Light, White, Survival

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• It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.

  Colin Fletcher

  Rain, Sunset, Simple

  Colin Fletcher (1973). “The Winds of Mara”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• And so, in terms of setting the right tone and finding a way of presenting all of these things, that creates a cohesive whole and doesn't alienate the audience, is tough. That's a challenge. And I think the tone of a lot of shows is discovered through experimentation and actually making it. Eventually, it starts to cohere.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Challenges, Way

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Directors, Doe

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• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Color, Choices

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 412, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Home, World

  Rudolf Steiner, Alice Wulsin (1983). “The inner nature of music and the experience of tone: selected lectures from the work of Rudolf Steiner”, Rudolf Steiner Pr

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• The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.

  William Blaikie

  Men, Special, Saving

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• Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Thinking, Wind

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

  Richard Wagner

  Essence, Able, Instrumental Music

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• There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

  Fede Alvarez

  Blood, Want, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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