Quotes About Tone

Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat-haters. YOU LIKE GREAT BIG DOGS, I IMAGINE.

I haven't the knack of being colorful.

Doesn't it matter how you ask the question? Or if the tone of your request is closer to a fist than to an open palm? Can the nature of the request corrupt the purity of the gift, the donated sleep?

It ain't what you say: it's how you say it.

It starts by identifying your brand voice. Ask yourself these questions. What's your primary message? What tone of voice do you use? What type of language do you use? How do you want to speak to your audience? How do you want clients to feel when they communicate with you?

The gift is, er, acceptable, Your Grace?" Caleb ventured in a delicate tone. The duke flashed a dangerous smile more potent than the laudanum. "We'll soon find out," he said. Never taking his stare off her, he nodded to his silent guardsmen. "Put her in my chamber.

Describe the shape of his face. Round, square?" "Rectangular, I suppose, with a cleft chin." "We're not at the chin yet." "Well, pardon me," he retorted, stung by her snippy tone. She tilted her head and drew a deep breath.

Ultimately, said Lucas, adopting the tones of the radical hippie many supposed him to be, "we learned one rule that came out of the '60s: Acquire the means of production

What'd she want?" Her tone chipper as usual. I couldn't hear any suspicion in it. "She wanted to know where I was." "Why didn't you tell her?" "Because she burned down my house." I said, and then added, "And because I don't know where we are.

Yes, I believe every environment has a tone. If you were to walk into any home as a stranger, not speaking the language, you could absolutely feel whether this is a place where people are loved.

Dr. Perry: That vibration, as you describe it, equates to the emotional tone of the environment.

No other speaker at that convention was allowed to ignore the time limit laid out for him in the split-second script, but Goldwater was encouraged to rave and snarl at the cameras until he ran out of things to say. His speech set the tone for the whole convention, and his only real competition was Ronald Reagan. Compared to those two, both Agnew and Nixon sounded like bleeding-heart liberals.

He suddenly dropped his bantering tone and looked at Bond sharply and venomously.

the exclamation mark was the first resort of those who shout to make themselves clearer.

In those first moments it was easier to conceal a confusion of feeling behind a motherly tone

The thing about having an amazing stylist - it's not about who is better: it's more so about your body type finding amazing pieces, but also, setting the tone for what people believe is your life. It's like the editing of a movie or the color-correcting of a photo.

Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing.

You want to have a feeling when you sing that you just love singing; you love the feeling of singing, and you love this feeling of this voice coming out of your body into this world. It's about really getting that most beautiful, pure, centered tone, thinking about the story of each song and the lyrics, and connecting your own life to that story.

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

The girl spoke, a tone of command that rang like iron on stone.

Shem noticed a reserve in Daniel's tone, a stony reticence that had not been there before.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.