Tone Quotes - Page 5

• With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Dresses, Film

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• The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

  Aberjhani

  Light, Air, Captivating

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.16, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

  E. J. Hughes

  Age, Looks, Lines

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• Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Black, Etching, Variation

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

  Peter Jackson

  Running, Crazy, Consistency

  "Comic-Con: Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson Talk THE HOBBIT, the Possibility of Three Films, 48fps, 3D, SHERLOCK, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2012.

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• Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

  Will Rogers

  Oregon, Yield, Talking

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• Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, People, Giving

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Blue, Sky

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• I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Political, Film

  "RoboCop remake director Jose Padilha says reboot is ‘urgently needed’". metro.co.uk. September 22, 2011.

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• Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Voice, Style

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• When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Names, Imagination

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.125, e-artnow

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• I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy."

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Life, Skills, Symphony

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

  Brandon Stanton

  Voice, Trying, Way

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• A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,
  Sweet bath, suavely
  Scented with ointments,
  
  has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Hair, Hands

  "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hate, Voice, Hopeful

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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

  Guy Ritchie

  Tvs, Like You, Tv Series

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.

  David First

  Thinking, Talking, Littles

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Trying, Used, Brian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  Scott Putesky

  Important, Boards, Cabinets

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Ordinary, Noble, Harmony

  1885 Letter to Emile Schuffenecker

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• I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Long, Smoking, Complaining

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.31, Macmillan

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