Quotes About Tone

The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

est, sans conteste, la tonalité absolument dominante

A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.

His voice not only dripped sarcasm but seemed to have spent days marinated in it: "How noble." "Objection!

I started many years ago using the Boss DS-1 and then graduated to the Satchurator and putting that right into that clean channel, and that sounds great. I've done many tours with that setup. Then we took the next two channels that were part of the JVM sound in channel 1 and made them a little more subtle.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face

Like an acoustic instrument

I know that what's said is often less important than the tone of voice in which the words are spoken. There is music in dialogue, mysterious harmonies and dissonances that vibrate in the body like a tuning fork.

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

Cut the sarcasm. It makes you sound like an even bigger asshole

CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I'm not yelling!!! > CracKing: You're using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that's like yelling.

It's seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…" he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. "…at least until I found you.

You don't have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters.

Thousands! Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers.

Timbre is the emblematic tone, or voice, generated by each type of instrument or biological sound source. Not only do musical instruments have singular voice characteristics but so does every living organism and most man-made machines. The difference between the sound of a violin and that of a trumpet is as distinctive as that between a cicada and an American robin, or a cat and a dog—or between a Rolls-Royce and a Formula 1 automobile. When Paul Beaver and I first began

Right." He smiled. "Only war we've got, you know. Bit like your Vietnam." From anyone else his tone would have been too like the way the British sound in old movies. From Mark it seemed

up. A singsong voice said, "At the sound of the tone, General Telephone time will be twelve o'clock, exactly." I burst out laughing and Althea looked at me.