Tone Quotes - Page 5

• I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

  Peter Jackson

  Running, Crazy, Consistency

  "Comic-Con: Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson Talk THE HOBBIT, the Possibility of Three Films, 48fps, 3D, SHERLOCK, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2012.

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• I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Trying, Used, Brian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

  Brandon Stanton

  Voice, Trying, Way

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• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

  Fanny Kemble

  Character, Evil, Soul

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• The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Real, Campaigns, Pace

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• I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

  Theophilus London

  Color, Shirts, Outfits

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• A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.

  Billy Boyd

  Goodbye, Song, Army

  “THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES: Check Out the Music Video for Billy Boyd’s ‘The Last Goodbye’” by Prtti Nemiroff, collider.com. November 21, 2014.

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• When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opinion, Reason

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Voice, Style

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• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Life, Skills, Symphony

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Names, Imagination

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.125, e-artnow

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• Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man.

  Matthew Simpson

  Heart, Men, People

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• We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.

  Stephen Leacock

  Communication, College, Long

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.60, University of Toronto Press

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

  Carlton Cuse

  Dark, Made, Wells

  Source: collider.com

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• I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy."

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.

  David First

  Thinking, Talking, Littles

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

  Guy Ritchie

  Tvs, Like You, Tv Series

  Source: collider.com

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• A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,
  Sweet bath, suavely
  Scented with ointments,
  
  has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Hair, Hands

  "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.

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• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Wall, Holiday

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hate, Voice, Hopeful

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.

  Simone Weil

  Rely Upon, Rights, Flavor

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

  Paul Gauguin

  Ordinary, Noble, Harmony

  1885 Letter to Emile Schuffenecker

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• If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Feelings, Execution

  "Poetry and the Age". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 17, 1953.

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