Tone Receiver

Famous quotes containing the words tone and/or receiver:

“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)