Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Ritchie

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

Jack Kerouac

We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

It does really well, and we have tons of different publications.

Burgess Meredith

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

Burt Lancaster

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Jamaica Kincaid

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.

Frank Herbert

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.

Jim Butcher

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Horace Mann

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

J. K. Rowling

Always the tone of surpise.

J. K. Rowling

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.

J. K. Rowling

I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

George Herbert

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

George Herbert

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

George Herbert

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

George Herbert

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Pierre Schaeffer

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

Jodi Picoult

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

John Green

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

Karl Liebknecht

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

Marya Hornbacher

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

Marshall McLuhan

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Moliere

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Nancy O'Dell

I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

Katherine Mansfield

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

Paul Gauguin

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

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

Paul Hindemith

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

B. C. Forbes

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.