65 Quotes About Tone

  • Author Mike Dunham
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    I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

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  • Author George Eliot
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    Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

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

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  • Author Frank Herbert
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    Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

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  • Author Jamaica Kincaid
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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.

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  • Author Sherrilyn Kenyon
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    You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)

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