Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different. . . maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.
I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks just as many questions as Galem. " "I'm sorry," Oliver said weakly. The old woman nodded. "You are forgiven," she pronounced in a queenly tones.
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can. 'Then he phoned Special Forces.
My tone and my style are reflected in the movies I choose to make. I want to make big movies. My dream is to be Jon Favreau or Ben Affleck.
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.
Vicky became more serious and her tone more reflective as she remarked, "Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don't mean escape. You don't escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. Mon Dieu, I'm glad I have them. When I find myself in a situation in which I'd rather not be - because of the perculiar circumstances of my life - I have this outlet. You may think me tres superieure but I'm not really, I am just what I am and live the way I like. "
I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry. " I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.