Quotes About Tone

We don't need to get into all that right now," Darby continued. "I'm sure Mr. Marlow can read between the lines. Anything else, Mr. Marlow?" Jade noticed that her tone had changed. Though she was still polite, her warmth had departed.

Do your best to maintain an authentic style of writing. If you are a serious person, be serious. If you are a comic, be funny. Do not choose a style or a tone that is different from the person you really are.

Memory is a hunting horn Its tone dies out along the wind.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

preacher's tone:

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.

I think 'Lost in Space' certainly shifted from being an ensemble adventure series about a family facing the unknown alien environment to this trio of comedians - Dr. Smith, the Robot, and Will Robinson being the straight guy. It definitely changed its tone over the three seasons and 84 episodes we did.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

I am a sad person. In this world there are people who like major notes and minor notes. I like minor notes.

I'm not indignant, I said indignantly.

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.

If you stretched a piece of music—so to speak—as the tone drew away the color would fade.

She thought his sarcasms were unnecessary.

A hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle that came with the breakfast cereal was the same 2600 Hertz tone used by the phone network's call-routing switches.

Her voice was somewhere in the lower register of gold.

His voice was low and manly,

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

It's been suggested that successful communication consists of 7 percent content, 38 percent tone of voice, and 55 percent nonverbal communication. We're usually aware of the content of what we're saying, but not nearly as aware of our tone of voice.

The audience perked up the more. American conservatives were a combative tribe who didn't speak of liberals as their "friends," but here Reagan did. His tone was serious, but it wasn't angry, the way Goldwater's often was. Reagan criticized Democratic leaders, but he didn't criticize Democrats. He condemned the direction the American government was going, but he professed confidence in the American people.

When we believe we won't get through to the offending party, we often increase the intensity and lengthen our arguments. This does not help---and usually hurts. We may not recognize that our tone of voice or the sheer number of sentences may be the culprit.

The soul apart from the body and mind is a sound, a note, a tone, which is called in Sanskrit Svara.