Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tahar Ben Jelloun

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Sylvia Plath

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

Rosanne Cash

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

Rumi

We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror

Rumi

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

Rumi

Raise your words, not your voice.

Rumi

At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

Rumi

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Rumi

There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.

Rumi

Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise.

Rumi

No more words. Hear only the voice within.

Tom Robbins

His voice wore no pants.

Tom Ford

I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

Tom Bodett

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

Tom Baker

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

Tony Goldwyn

In television, the creator is really the voice.

Stephen Crane

I walked in a desert. And I cried, ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’ I cried, ‘Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

Stephen Covey

I keep my phone number unlisted and rely on my associates to handle all voice mail, e-mail, faxes.

Sigmund Freud

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Sigmund Freud

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

Shawn Hatosy

Wile E. Coyote is a coyote with nothing but good intentions. But Road Runner comes along and is unattainable, he wants it and can't get it, and thus he becomes a villain that is impossible to be around. Bill O'Reilly is a villain that is so in love with himself and the sound of his voice that he's literally become the personification of evil.

Scott Turow

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

Steven Morrissey

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

Steven Morrissey

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Susan L. Taylor

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

Susan Jeffers

Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.

Sue Grafton

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

Sue Monk Kidd

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

Robby Benson

I have been doing voice work my entire life, and I adore it. It is really rewarding stuff.

Ridley Pearson

So planning something big." "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it." "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.

Ridley Scott

There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.