Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.

Daniel Tammet

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

Dane Cook

I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

Darren Johnson

Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.

Darren Johnson

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

Darren Johnson

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Dave Eggers

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

Dave Eggers

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

Kurt Vonnegut

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.

Cassandra Clare

You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

Cassandra Clare

So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears. 'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.

Cassandra Clare

Jem?" he said. 'It is you, James?' 'Who else?' Jem's voice.

Caroline Norton

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

Carly Simon

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

Evo Morales

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

Eydie Gorme

My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.

Eydie Gorme

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

Muriel Spark

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

Muriel Spark

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Mo Yan

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

Moby

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

During the Mavelmania days in the late '60's I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, "Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you're a pretty good inker." That's how it started.

Mika

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

Kimberly Elise

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless,

Kim Williams

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

Kevin Eubanks

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Kenny Chesney

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

Kathleen Hanna

I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.

Matt Drudge

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

Matt Drudge

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

Matt Dillon

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

Marian Keyes

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.