Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Purefoy

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

John Knowles

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Norton Juster

Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

Matt Ryan

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

Rip Taylor

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Peter Sarsgaard

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

Pythagoras

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

Konrad Adenauer

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

Marcel Proust

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jennifer Esposito

You can touch up and they don't feel like they have a ton of gunk on their hair.

Lisa Kleypas

You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

John Turturro

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Sharon Gless

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males,

Lucy Lawless

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

Louisa May Alcott

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

John Green

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

R. A. Salvatore

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

Prince Philip

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

Plutarch

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

John Fahey

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

John Candy

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

Malcolm Forbes

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

Jimmy Rollins

Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

Robert Holden

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Ryan Murphy

Tone is everything in TV.

Roland Barthes

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

Robert Jordan

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.