Tone Starts Mid

Famous quotes containing the words tone, starts and/or mid:

    “When you listen to gongs and drums, listen to the music; when you listen to someone talk, listen to his tone of voice.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “There, on the mountain and the sky,
    On all the tragic scene they stare.
    One asks for mournful melodies;
    Accomplished fingers begin to play.
    Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
    Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)