#tone

I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#dignity #even #get #go #good

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful. ↗

— Gary Ross

#because #breadth #fanciful #handle #seems

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#cooperation #friction #keystone #progress #retards

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ↗

— Pericles

#engraved #into #leave #lives #monuments

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. ↗

— Goran Persson

#church #humanity #lies #made #open

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. ↗

— Tom Petty

#any #blues #come #covering #find

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. ↗

— Robert Plant

#stepping #stepping stone #stone

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

#larger #lesser #lie #say #stones

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#collection #facts #heap #house #more

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. ↗