Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Patrick Rothfuss

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Lakhdar Brahimi

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

L. Neil Smith

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Lilly Pulitzer

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

P. J. O'Rourke

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

E. P. Thompson

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Naomi Wolf

Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.

Harvey Fierstein

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

Henry Rollins

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

Henry Giroux

All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do not count - your agency is worthless, your experiences are worthless, and your voice should remain silent - but they are also told that there is no alternative to current state of affairs.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Burn Gorman

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.