Quotes About Tone

My wife kept wheat germ in ours," resumed Wonko, with some new tone in his voice, "until last night.…" "What," said Arthur slowly and hushedly, "happened last night?" "We ran out of wheat germ," said Wonko, evenly. "My wife," he added, "has gone to get some more.

doctor's tone caught Poirot's attention

His tone was reproachful and she flushed and bit her lip. Miss Johnson hastily turned the conversation to the dig

I've no particular loyalty to Mrs. Leidner," said Miss Johnson dryly. There was indeed a sharp and acid tone in her voice.

Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.

I can have Paladin take you home," Father said in a warning tone.

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It's a very warm instrument. The tone of the cello and the movement - I don't know what is; I love it so much.

Rock shows are loud, so I try to use a sound that is warm on the high frequencies.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.

I learned that you have to be careful about how you say things but not what you say.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

His mode of speaking was largely incomprehensible, his tone was portentous, which is perhaps why he inevitably spoke in capital letters. Words existed in his speech as currants in a badly made bread-and-butter pudding - clusters of stodgy darkness

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.

Things were just as they had been a moment before, and yet somehow the tone and substance had changed.

Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. "You knocked him stupid," he bellowed. "No," Emily corrected in what she believed was a reasonable tone of voice. "He was already stupid. I knocked him out.

Holy shit." Nolan's tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul's garage than they ever got over a woman.

He laughed, and the round, brandy-rich tones rolled over me like velvet blankets, sending an electric jolt of lust down my spine.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.