Tone Quotes - Page 4

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  Scott Putesky

  Important, Boards, Cabinets

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• I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Political, Film

  "RoboCop remake director Jose Padilha says reboot is ‘urgently needed’". metro.co.uk. September 22, 2011.

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• The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

  Aberjhani

  Light, Air, Captivating

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.16, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• "I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

  Lewis Carroll

  Kings, Real, Distance

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.53, PDFreeBooks.org

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• When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

  Kit Harington

  Directors, Doe, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Men, Mad, Killing

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Victory, Watches

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

  Joely Fisher

  Thinking, Two, People

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• With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Dresses, Film

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• When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

  Alan Ladd

  Tired, Air, Voice

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• When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

  Aristide Maillol

  Next, Imitation, Achieve

  "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.

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• My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

  Scott McClellan

  Criticism, Comparison

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• A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Block, Cutting

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• Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Distance, Artist, Perspective

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• Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Blue, Sky

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• Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Black, Etching, Variation

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• Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

  Jay Moore

  Beautiful, Way, Etching

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• I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring

  Ian Chappell

  Independent, Talking, Voice

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• 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.

  E. J. Hughes

  Age, Looks, Lines

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• I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

  E. J. Hughes

  Night, Oil, Trying

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• Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, People, Giving

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Sweet, Voice

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• Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

  Will Rogers

  Oregon, Yield, Talking

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