Overtones Quotes

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. - Katherine Anne Porter

We did Papercut in three days on our own budget. The whole record is really, really personal, it has a lot of eerie dark overtones. On the new record we got to work with producers for the first time Patrick Stumph from FOB produced a few tracks we wanted to show we were out of that. Were happier with where we are as humans and we wanted that to shine in the record: we wanted to make a summertime record. I feel like we accomplished that. - Gym Class Heroes

This is not race I'm talking about. Every time I mention this they say this has racial overtones... When does it come to have racial overtones in this country to stand for law and order? - George Wallace

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. - Michael Behe

There was no talk of anything like that (religious overtones) ? not even a veiled threat. - John Valentine

The unfolding petro-nuclear Iran debacle laced with faith-based overtones is making the average investor quite nervous these days. - Jon Nadler

The sapphires have a distinctive deep blue color with violet overtones. There have been 330 grams of sapphires mined from Beluga. It's an unusual sapphire occurrence and it's being compared to the beautiful tourmalines and aquamarine occurrences in Afghanistan and Pakistan as far as gem quality stone. - Carole Lee