Quotes About Tone

Her voice is full of money

Hablar sinceramente de ciertos temas serios implica el tono humorístico como único modo de evitar la solemne ridiculez.

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.

I think a perfect-color scarf really brings out your whole skin tone, lip color, and everything else.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

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.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

Los veinte minutos iniciales tuvieron un tono trágico en donde la palabra destino se empleó diez veces y la palabra amistad veinticuatro.

alone came, pitched in a normal tone but carrying clearly. 'Somehow,' she said coldly, 'you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong.

Selecting a grey background may be the best option as it has little impact on how you perceive the image.

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Her voice was husky, vibrating, slightly flat, coming in just under each note like a saucer under a cup.

That's not the one you were thinking of? No. There was accusation in her voice. Mine was different

That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

Even Polly seemed impressed, for he called her a good girl, blessed her buttons, and begged her to come and take a walk, dear, in his most affable tone.

He seldom spoke so harshly in public.

We live in a bully culture. Politicians, corporations, the banks, the military. All bullies and crooks. They steal, they torture people, they make these insane rules and set the tone.

O, you can lecture me now, she laughed. You are the one with the high moral tone, that's a good one. It was you who left me, her voice reminded his ear, seeming to nibble at the lobe. It was you, O moon of my delight, who hid behind a cloud. And I in darkness, blinded, lost, for love.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

How Horrid has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

The music becomes boisterous and acoustic, at the low end of genius but brilliant in spirit and tone. It is joy by fiddle, laughter by accordion, Ireland through to the bone.

Hers is a low voice, full of pebbles—a sailor's voice or a smoker's.