Quotes About Tone

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

The tone is not the writer's voice, but the intimacy of the silence he imposes upon the word. This implies that the silence is still his—what remains of him in the discretion that sets him aside. The tone makes great writers, but perhaps the work is indifferent to what makes them great.

the Please was more like a command than a request

she suffered from an "impetuosity of feeling." The effort to "say everything in a breath" caused her only to "begin at the end, or dash into the middle" of her argument when she felt the pressure to defend herself. The same pressure "gives my voice a tone, which those around me mistake for anger with them; and thus I leave the impression of having a confused head & a bad temper.

I have only found the strength to visit five times in thirty years because of the uneasy feeling the city gives me. Three of those visits have been since Bill and Hillary Clinton took over the governor's mansion, because they set a tone that made me feel safer here.

I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.

Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.

If you raise your voice when giving a command to your child, he will learn to associate your tone and sound level with your intention. If you have trained him to respond to a bellow, don't blame him if he ignores your first thirteen calm "suggestions" while waiting for your fevered pitch to reach the point where he interprets it to be a real command.

You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.

Ik vind haar cool.' Zijn wat al te onverschillige toon viel Sophie meteen op. Ze glimlachte breed en haar wenkbrauwen schoten omhoog. 'Wie? O je bedoelt die tweeduizend jaar oude krijgshaftige maagd. Vind je eigenlijk niet dat ze een beetje te oud voor je is?

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

In an attempt to achieve the cheeky, gay-centric tone of the show, I had written a sample so over-the-top offensively gay that it actually reads like a propaganda sketch to incite antigay sentiment.

Writers often find themselves staring at the page or screen with the awful feeling that it sounds "all wrong." For whom am I writing? is the question that can help determine the appropriateness of your tone of voice.

Cruelty has a polite mask of hypocrisy. The more deceitful the person, the more polite his tone.

That was very bad of you, Elena, Raphael said once they were in the air. You know the coming sun shower will pass in but a moment. I also know Tasha McHotpants is regretting she didn't scoop you up when you were young and single. Altering her mental tone, she said, Oh, Raphael, what luck I caught you. And me dressed up like a warrior with a sword and everything. She snorted. Luck my ass.

More, Elena." It was a command, given in the tone she only ever heard in bed, sexual and demanding and, sometimes, without mercy. "Always with the orders," she whispered

She heard irony in his tone and the bitter pain gliding, sharklike, beneath it.

Detective, any warm-blooded male with a pulse would have his hand on your glorious ass. May I?" "Knock yourself out." His fingertips sketched over that tight sheen of Lycra before cupping a taut globe for a squeeze. "What kind of workout do you do to get that kind of muscle tone?" She put her face up close to his. "I beat the shit outta guys who grab my ass.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

His voice was like the cowbells, soft-metalled and dull, but with music buried in it somewhere.

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading in itself. Following the lines of something — not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend — becoming surefooted on the high-wire of the author's intention.

There was another pause, then the Marrok said in that light pleasant tone that warned everyone who knew him that all hell was about to break loose.