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Quotes About Monotone

The danger of serialization is that you almost get into a monotone - where they all have the same beat and pace, and it's all one long thing - and when you can kind of do this interesting mixture of episodic and serialization, you can kind of take the audience on a more interesting journey.
~ Ronald D. Moore
Any colour - so long as it's black.
~ Henry Ford
Natalya asked, How'd you escape all the vampires out for your head? In a monotone voice, Lothaire stated, I'm that good.
~ Kresley Cole
Kiara shook her head at his dry wit that he delivered in a perfect deadpan monotone. He was strangely entertaining in a lethal, 'I'll rip out your heat and eat it' kind of way.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
~ Gustav Stickley
Wilmer Stone read our stories to us in a monotone as if he were reading from the pages of a phone directory. What we learned with each stab of pain was that the words themselves and not the inflections supplied by the reader had to carry the emotion of the story.
~ Sol Stein
Haley Joel Osment said "Party girl" which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached.
~ Tao Lin
We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from a blown speaker.
~ Sean Evans
Right, by tomorrow morning everyone will have congregated in Le Havre and you can all pile in the car and come back out here together, said Tristan in a rapid monotone, as if needing to rationalize being along with me overnight as nothing more than a matter of logistics. DEAR READER: It was not a matter of logistics.
~ Neal Stephenson
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Claudia's monotone had…softened. Emotions were now threaded through her voice, tying together her words. Were these emotions real? Or were they made up?
~ Chuck Wendig
A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite the various creeds in hypnotic monotone; the hymns, pumped from wheezy organ pipes, are sung with no lilt or musicality. The members of the choirs not only don't dance, they don't sway. That's not to say no one is ever smacked hard with God's love or filled up to the eyeballs with the Holy Spirit, but when you are, you keep it to yourself." (48)
~ Timothy Schaffert
The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots.
~ Christopher Moore
I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.
~ Emily Rios
Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?
~ Marcus Sakey
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
~ Marilyn Monroe