Top 319 Tones Quotes & Sayings

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

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?

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

I'm not really into cool tones personally.

Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.

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

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.

It's wonderful that newer brands such as Fenty are making clear statements about being for all skin tones.

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

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

I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.

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

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

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.

Life mixes tones all the time.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

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

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

There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.

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

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.

The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.

I love earth tones, jewel tones and everything that is natural. I also like natural materials like cottons, silks... I don't like synthetic. Even the wood we use has to be authentic.

I love the tones of browns and grays - I love more neutral tones. That's why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.

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.

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

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

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

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

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

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

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

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

I'm a minimalist: For a day look, I like earth tones,and at night I go with kohl and a smudgy black eye.

You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies.

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

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think there are a lot of really funny things in 'The Descendants,' but there're a lot of different tones in that movie, in the same way that 'Transparent' has a lot of different tones.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In India we have hundreds of skin tones and don't we need to show that?

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

One of the color combos that I really love is the tones of technicolor, which older movies would have, these tones of blue and red in them.

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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