Tone Quotes - Page 28

• When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Unique, Voice

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• The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Important, Spoiled

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• If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.

  Rachel Roy

  Color, Play, Safe

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• In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Thinking, Rights, Law

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 145, 1951.

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• The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Order, Band, May

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 170, 1951.

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• There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Two, People, Listening

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 170, 1951.

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• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Creative, Levels, May

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 159, 1951.

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• Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

  Jack Layton

  Might, Debate, Imagine

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• 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

  Sound, Poetry And Music, Consideration

  "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1820.

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• I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Plot, Stories

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• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  Elliott Sharp

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Two

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• Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.

  Juan Gelman

  Book, Thinking, Air

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• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  Edmund White

  Writing, America, Desire

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Thinking, Play, Important

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• At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
  tone in which they are uttered.

  Paul Bourget

  Moments, Certain

  "Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

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• When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

  Dan Gable

  Moving, Weight, Littles

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• First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. []  I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.” 

  Dan Savage

  Hate, Thinking, Annoyed

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• Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Gay, Keys

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• 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

  Stuff, Bizarre, Shows

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Music, Sound, Momentum

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• The highest tone is hard to hear.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Hard, Highest

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• I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Thinking, Environmental, Trying

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• Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.

  John Corvino

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

  Harvey Dunn

  Art, Faithful, Copying

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• Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

  Harvey Dunn

  Dark, Light, Form

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