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Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness. — Charles R. Swindoll

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think. — Michael Azerrad

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. — Sefi Atta

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know. — Jamaica Kincaid

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical. — Colin Firth

It was like an exercise bicycle for the mind - it doesn't take you anywhere, but it certainly tones up the muscles. — Terry Pratchett

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring. — Mark Twain

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words. — Richard Wagner

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones ... " and that's it. — Alex Scally

By profession an observer of tones and gestures, — Walter Scott

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones. — Gary Cherone

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain. — Robinson Jeffers

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully. — Paul Hindemith

And in their motions harmony divine
So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
Listens delighted. — John Milton

What kind of authors do you like? I asked, speaking in respectful tones to this man two years my senior. — Haruki Murakami

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. — David Tang

Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons. — Marya Hornbacher

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news — Dan Brown

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion. — Oliver

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

Speak of my future wife in anything but the most reverent of tones again, and it will be pistols at dawn. — Sabrina Jeffries

Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running of to pack your bags. — Mercedes Lackey

Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it. — Judith Chambers

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life mixes tones all the time. — Alexander Payne

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. — Sylvia Plath

They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls. — Catherynne M Valente

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul. — Michael Treanor

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

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

The sun has set," said Horne Fisher, in the same terrible tones, "and he will never see it rise again. — G.K. Chesterton

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. — David O. McKay

A tone can't be off-key. A tone isn't off- key until it is set alongside other tones. - Harry Hole — Jo Nesbo

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein. — Michio Kaku

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones. — Jason Mraz

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones") — Thomas Hardy

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. — Christian Dior

Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones. — Truth Devour

Music should make the spirit soar, take the breath away, touch the soul. Your work was just ... pleasant tones, adequately performed. — Brian Herbert

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones. — Jennifer Lopez

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick. — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave — Stephen Fry

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. — Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804

Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby. — Sophie Kinsella

Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle! — Nina Dobrev

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those. — Matt Ryan

She whispers her hush lullaby in dulcet tones to be carried by the wind sending her message My today belongs to you. — Truth Devour

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. — Peter Hoeg

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones. — Paul Cezanne

One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones. — Marc Guggenheim

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money. — Sebastiao Salgado

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. — Pierre Coupey

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones. — Lee Konitz

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. — Grover Norquist

Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here, he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection. — Neal Stephenson

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged? — Naomi Novik

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. — Thomas Hood

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Or it can be the reason we use to justify our anger and the sharp tones in our voices for the rest of our lives. — Shauna Niequist

Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled. — Larry Niven

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

It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color. — Dia Reeves

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. — John Townsend Trowbridge

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. — Willis Gaylord Clark

muted tones of puce--the color of tongue and bologna — Wendy Wunder

'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter. — Ben Lovett

And she really had tones to make justice weep. — Henry James

Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere. - CAMILLE PISSARRO — Stephanie Cowell

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. — Terry Pratchett

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm. — Robert Jordan

Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish. — Jenny Eclair

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. — Robert Frost

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. — Henri Matisse

conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna — Sylvia Plath

Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen. — William Robert Woodman

I followed the river to the shallows where it spoke of its bed, in whispering tones as gentle as the sun's growing warmth. — Miles Richardson

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Say 'Hello' in tones that bespeak how pleased you are to have the person call. — Dale Carnegie

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions. — Arthur Phillips

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart. — Richard Wagner

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place. — Lawrence Weschler

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they? — James Purefoy

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. — Edgar Allan Poe

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents. — Harvey Dunn

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones ... it will always stay blue. — Raoul Dufy

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones ... — Vincent Van Gogh

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. — Paul Cezanne

You weeel catch the korpa." "The what?" "The korpa!" I declared in dire tones. "Your private parts weeel shrink to nothink! — Leigh Bardugo

A caricature of what she'd been remained, sparely drawn in tones of gray and ivory. — Jay Greenstein

I cannot speak in happy tones. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning