Quotes About Tone

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

Hell-o-oh," she called with the silly lilt with which she and Tom announced arrivals. "Hello," Tom called from the living room, without the lilt.

Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

Believe me: no color is so romantic as tone.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

I've been guilty of being in the writers' room and going too dark; other people have gone too wacky and zany.

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.

You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can." The chaplain was apologetic. I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.

Gimme eat, I said," he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.

It set a tone and created a state of min in which greed predominated and disorder and violence were all too frequent.

That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

Her voice had something of the warm darkness in it.

Today, Psycho still holds up extraordinarily well (another reason why a remake seems pointless). With the exception of Halloween, no latter-day horror/thriller has been capable of generating as many goosebumps. The black-and-white photography is perfect for the film's tone and mood the starkness of color would have blurred the nightmarish quality. The painstaking care with which [director Alfred] Hitchcock composed every scene is evident in the quality of the final product.

dead at the Waldorf-Astoria's Wedgwood Room, a venue of such high tone that Cole Porter himself descended

I yearned for the kind of unseasoned telling foundIn legends, fairy tales, a tone licked cleanOver the centuries by mild old tongues,Grandam to cub, serene, anonymous.

Yes," said Julian, in a tone of voice which managed to convey at once both sympathy with and distaste for the Corcorans.

Largely to gain Nellie's approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. "Trollope is a great favorite of mine because of the realistic every day tone which one finds in every line he writes," he told her. "His heroes have failings human character is heir to, and we like them none the less on that account.

We, none of us, said anything to this flight of fancy. It was so far from our prognostications. Besides, we were shocked at his tone. (Of course, now I recognise it as frustrated idealism—now I write the word in connection with Paul it surprises me. It's the first time I've believed he was capable of it.) He

Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or a remark ignored at the time because its tone is not that of the meeting. Humorous, or satirical, or even angry or bitter — yet it's the truth, and all the long speeches and contributions are nonsense.

I see I am falling into the self-punishing, cynical tone again. Yet how comforting this tone is, like a sort of poultice on a wound.

And it is signed simply 'M.' A very cold letter, you may think—almost hostile in tone. And yet the appointment is made for 9:30.

That sounds perfectly reasonable …" he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure.