Quotes About Tone

The show understands its tone and characters intimately. 'Cobra Kai' has smart people doing silly things - which I can't get enough of.

Brown is definitely my colour. I like it's understated drabness.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

What do you say becomes less relevant when it is compared with how do you say it.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.

You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say - even when I'm talking nicely - does sound a bit rough.

Note how patronized you feel as a reader. Does this writer think we're in third grade? Does he think his points are that hard to grasp?

Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia . It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.

That's the way some people do business. I don't. It was the tone that made Ty stop. He supposed somehow over the past months they'd become friends. Almost family. Near enough that he understood the guilt, and the frustration. Nobody's saying that, David. Nobody thinks that.

Claudia's monotone had…softened. Emotions were now threaded through her voice, tying together her words. Were these emotions real? Or were they made up?

The German writer Goethe said that the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music—that to look upon a thing is to hear it. Music is liquid architecture, he wrote, and architecture is frozen music. 131

for there was neither pride nor regret in his tone; indeed it kept its level note, as of one who tells a tale so well known that the words have been rubbed smooth of meaning.

Defensive, defensive, defensive. And you can imagine the tone of voice she had throughout our meeting: sharp, dismissive, and filled with anger that she was not being recognized for her talent and expertise.

Since the ask is an "emotional firecracker" with emotions running quite high, it is important to drill down and see how important your tone of voice is when you ask. While the selection of your words when you make your ask is incredibly important, as you will see in the later chapters, my expression is "Your tone is as important as your words.

Remember, your tone is your superpower. It can invite people to hear more and say yes to your ask, or it can turn them off, and your ask will fizzle away.

pero nunca olvido una voz por mucho que cambie, y por muchos años que pasen. Una voz siempre tiene algo, un timbre, un tono, que la define como única.

but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

Her reverting to this tone, as if our association were forced upon us and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

Who is Slumkey?'whispered Mr. Tupman. 'I don't know,' replied Mr. Pickwick, in the same tone. 'Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass. 'Shout with the largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick. Volumes could not have said more.

Music is the color of sound.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic — it just comes naturally.