Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shel Silverstein

Listen to the voice that speaks inside

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Neil Patrick Harris

The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

Natalie Goldberg

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Tama Janowitz

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

Joseph Conrad

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

Joseph Fiennes

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Kate Smith

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Kate Millett

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

Karlheinz Stockhausen

When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.

Leona Lewis

Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!

Leonard Cohen

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Leonard Cohen

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Lawrence Welk

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

John Keats

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linda Ronstadt

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Linda Cardellini

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Leo Tolstoy

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is love in search of a voice.

Leif Johansson

The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.

Peter Kreeft

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Peter S. Beagle

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Rabindranath Tagore

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Rabindranath Tagore

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

Rabindranath Tagore

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Placido Domingo

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Placido Domingo

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Placido Domingo

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Joseph Bruchac

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices...

Kevin Hart

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Kenzaburo Oe

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.