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Quotes about Tones

16 Picture Quotes

117 Written Quotes

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. Votes: 4

Ludwig van Beethoven

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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones") Votes: 3

Thomas Hardy

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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they? Votes: 2

James Purefoy

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The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. Votes: 2

Christian Dior

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There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully. Votes: 2

Paul Hindemith

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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. Votes: 2

Joseph Priestley

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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. Votes: 2

Stephen Fry

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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones. Votes: 2

Gary Cherone

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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. Votes: 2

Paul Cezanne

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Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. Votes: 2

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones. Votes: 2

Steven Weber

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The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.' Votes: 2

Si Robertson

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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. Votes: 2

Michio Kaku

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Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children. Votes: 2

Judith Martin

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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. Votes: 2

Terry Pratchett

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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. Votes: 2

Serge Schmemann

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. Votes: 2

Herman Hesse

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I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye. Votes: 2

David Nevins

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. Votes: 2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. Votes: 2

Louis C. K.

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I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. Votes: 2

Johnny Winter

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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle. Votes: 2

L. Lionel Kendrick

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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. Votes: 2

C. S. Lewis

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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! Votes: 2

Jack LaLanne

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I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel. Votes: 2

Angus Young

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I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white. Votes: 2

Masashi Kishimoto

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Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound. Votes: 2

Kendrick Lamar

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Life mixes tones all the time. Votes: 0

Alexander Payne

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I cannot speak in happy tones. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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There are tones of voices that mean more than words. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. Votes: 0

Henri Matisse

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Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish. Votes: 0

Jenny Eclair

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That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones. Votes: 0

Lee Konitz

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Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones. Votes: 0

Paul Cezanne

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Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul. Votes: 0

Michael Treanor

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Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. Votes: 0

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way. Votes: 0

Jay Moore

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There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. Votes: 0

Paul Gauguin

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Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. Votes: 0

Frederick Tennyson

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted. Votes: 0

John Milton

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I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones. Votes: 0

Jennifer Lopez

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You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. Votes: 0

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. Votes: 0

Thomas Hood

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Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents. Votes: 0

Harvey Dunn

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In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation. Votes: 0

Willis Gaylord Clark

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Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. Votes: 0

David O. McKay

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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback. Votes: 0

Kate Fox

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Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter. Votes: 0

Ben Lovett

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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. Votes: 0

Novalis

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For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. Votes: 0

Sefi Atta

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Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. Votes: 0

Anatole Broyard

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With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. Votes: 0

John Townsend Trowbridge

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Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen. Votes: 0

William Robert Woodman

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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. Votes: 0

Beatrice Wood

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Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones"¦it will always stay blue. Votes: 0

Raoul Dufy

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To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones... Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle! Votes: 0

Nina Dobrev

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The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. Votes: 0

Ann Coulter

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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. Votes: 0

Grover Norquist

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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. Votes: 0

Peter HÃ¸eg

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Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. Votes: 0

Harvey Dunn

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For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones. Votes: 0

Jason Mraz

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Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. Votes: 0

Pierre Coupey

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The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart. Votes: 0

Richard Wagner

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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. Votes: 0

John Boyle O'Reilly

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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. Votes: 0

Alex Scally

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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. Votes: 0

Richard Wagner

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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. Votes: 0

Colin Firth

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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. Votes: 0

Walter J. Phillips

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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. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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. Votes: 0

Sophie Kinsella

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I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever. Votes: 0

Katrina Bowden

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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. Votes: 0

David Tang

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I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think. Votes: 0

Michael Azerrad

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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. Votes: 0

Isaac D'Israeli

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For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure. Votes: 0

Annea Lockwood

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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. Votes: 0

Sebastiao Salgado

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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. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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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. Votes: 0

Jamaica Kincaid

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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. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Votes: 0

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious. Votes: 0

Sarah Rees Brennan

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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 Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home. Votes: 0

Rudolf Steiner

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My type, which I didn't realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically. Votes: 0

Derek Hough

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My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically. Votes: 0

Derek Hough

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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things. Votes: 0

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day! Votes: 0

Chris Rock

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Don't choose anything that's two tones lighter than your natural lip tone, and make sure there's a little pink in the hue so it doesn't look too washed out. Votes: 0

Charlotte Tilbury

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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. Votes: 0

Alan Ladd

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If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow. Votes: 0

Doug Dawson

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The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys. Votes: 0

Thad Carhart

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If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...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. Votes: 0

Marya Hornbacher

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Ty." Zane's even, soothing tones finally broke on the short gasp of his nameI Love you and I'm scared I'll lose you. Please don't leave me alone in the dark." Votes: 0

Madeleine Urban

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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. Votes: 0

Brigham Young

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It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones. Votes: 0

Pauline Oliveros

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If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers. Votes: 0

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones. Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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Nothing exists without music; for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tones of that harmony. Votes: 0

Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard

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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. Votes: 0

Aberjhani

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I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied. Votes: 0

Angela Bassett

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I don't look at sports as something which merely tones up the body. I look at it as a tool of education that stimulates the mind and brings in a culture of discipline. Votes: 0

Narendra Modi

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You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. Votes: 0

Moliere

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Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo. Votes: 0

George D. Prentice

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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements. Votes: 0

Baker Brownell

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The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Votes: 0

Hector Berlioz

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Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer. Votes: 0

Amy Lowell

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The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher

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Nicht aufzufallen ist das erste Gesetz des guten Tones.

Langbehn, Julius

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

Lewis Carroll

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When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

Micah Perks

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If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

Michael Rooker

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I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

John L. Lewis

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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

Paul Klee

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In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives

Bettina Skrzypczak

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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

Henri Bergson

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Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

Winston Churchill

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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

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What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.

Arnold Friberg

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The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

Eva Ibbotson

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Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.

John Byrne

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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.

Vincent Van Gogh

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In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Stan Smith

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I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

Melissa Rosenberg

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I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

Steve Allen

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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

Michel de Montaigne

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I'm not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn't this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

Richard Siken

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Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

J. K. Rowling

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To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

Storm Jameson

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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color " pink.

Raoul Dufy

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Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.

John Flanagan

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I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

Ingmar Bergman

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Darwin speculated that âmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumphâ and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

Oliver Sacks

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