Top Tone Quotes
Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
Steve Wozniak
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
Matt Groening
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
Alice Hoffman
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
Henry Mayhew
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
Steve Wozniak 
63% of people like this quote
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
Alice Hoffman
61% of people like this quote
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
Matt Groening
61% of people like this quote
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
Henry Mayhew
60% of people like this quote
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert von Chamisso
60% of people like this quote
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Truman Capote
58% of people like this quote
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
Dan Castellaneta
58% of people like this quote
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
Charles W. Colson
57% of people like this quote
I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.
Louis Malle
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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Norman McLaren
56% of people like this quote
Popular Tone Authors
Friedrich NietzscheMason CooleySamuel ButlerLord ChesterfieldDonald RumsfeldMarshall McLuhanAnthony TrollopeVladimir NabokovGustav MahlerMatt GroeningSteve WozniakHarvey FiersteinColin GreenwoodAlice HoffmanJohn Sayles
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