Tones Quotes

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

Stress, Training, Body

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

Mind, Wrong, Might

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

Down, Storm, Until

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

Two, Light, Less

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

Love, Word, Full

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.
Louis C. K.

Great, Movies, Struggle

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

Pink, Prevail, Gray

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.
Herman Hesse

Happiness, Together, Away

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!
Jack LaLanne

Alone, Makes, Body

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Eric Liu

America, Young, Learn

Life mixes tones all the time.
Alexander Payne

Life, Time, Mixes

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

Writing, Sense, Playing

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.
Alan Ladd

Tired, Pretty, Voice

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.
Judith Martin

Education, Children, Parents

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.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Music, Best, Book

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

Earth, Color, Subdued

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

Irritating, Ring

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
Ray Davies

Time, Find, Put

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

Trying, Guitar, Treat

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.
Johnny Winter

Good, Mean, Enough

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

Women, Gossip, Different

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

Rich, Voice, Daughter

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.
Serge Schmemann

Life, Daily, Silence

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
Pat Mastelotto

Play, Goes, Metal

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

Else, Everyone, Gentle

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.
Katrina Bowden

Great, Stress, Everything

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

Treated, Carefully, Twelve

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

Music, Sick, Listen

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

Perfect, Passing, Loud

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