Quotes About Tone In Literature

#1. During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say.

Paul Stanley

#2. Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'

Terry Eagleton

#3. 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.

E.B. White

#4. I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the - never mind.)

James Patterson

#5. You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!

Philip Selway

#6. I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.

Ravi Zacharias

#7. Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

Oswald Chambers

#8. Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'

Nick Denton

#9. I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

Dave Grohl

#10. I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..

Sara Gruen

#11. I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.

Kelly Clarkson

#12. I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

John Mayer

#13. The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.

Jay Parini

#14. Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

Vladimir Putin

#15. There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there lifted itself a sullen wave of doom which curled and crashed and the whole earth seemed ruining and washing away in water.

Virginia Woolf

#16. My music is not lovely

Arnold Schoenberg

#17. When your art fails, make better art.

Seth Godin