Quotes About Tone

The dry tone, brittle enough to break an edge and cut yourself on.

His tone was amused, silky-sweet, but Keith caught the worry under it.

A voice for a moment he mistook for his own defiant tones, the spiked irony he saved for moments of abject vulnerability.

Years of practice kept the ironic tinge from her voice.

The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions. And then it stops and undertakes to answer in the same tone of voice. No one could tell the difference. Uninnocent, these conversations start, and then engage the senses, only half-meaning to. And then there is no choice, and then there is no sense; until a name and all its connotation are the same.

her voice sounded like a tarnished silver spoon.

Every single color has a base to it. You can have a taupe that has a green undertone, a taupe that has a gray undertone.

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

Sometimes our words are saying one thing, but our tone of voice is saying another. We are sending double messages. Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

Sometimes our words say one thing, but our tone of voice says another.

The manner in which we speak is exceedingly important.

Yes, said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

I developed a theory that, in many ways, the early 'Andy Griffith' episodes especially were an awful lot like a Capra movie. They were a lot like 'Mr. Deeds' or a lot like 'It's a Wonderful Life' in tone and presentation.

Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.

I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They play beautifully!

Dong Quai Another one of the excellent fertility herbs, dong quai specifically helps regulate hormones and tone the uterus. It also helps to maintain estrogen and progesterone balance, which is especially useful for those with estrogen dominance. Also helps with premenstrual depression.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

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.

Donald Trump is a pathological liar. We have never - our campaign does not believe and never will encourage anybody to disrupt anything. I would hope that Mr. Trump tones it down big time.

Porque en ese proceso no están solo las palabras que se dicen: está también la forma y manera como se dicen.

Find the right tone and you can write about anything

KLYTEMNESTRA Go ahead. Permission granted. If you always spoke in a tone this calm, it wouldn't be so painful.

He's quiet long enough that I'm about to prod, when he speaks in that way of his that I'm sure he thinks is gentle but is patronizing as hell. Is that what Trinity hears when I address her concerns? Shit. I'll need to be more careful. There's a fine line between "gentle" and "patronizing," and I might be straying as far over it as Oscar is.