Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Watts

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isabel Allende

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

Indra Devi

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

George Bernard Shaw

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

George Bernard Shaw

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Gary Lineker

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

Gale Gordon

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

Fred Durst

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

Erich Maria Remarque

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

Erich Maria Remarque

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

Erica Jong

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Erica Jong

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Eric Church

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

Eric Clapton

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Enrico Caruso

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

Israel Zangwill

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

Italo Calvino

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

Isabelle Huppert

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture

Ira Glass

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Harry Belafonte

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

Guy Maddin

But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.

Gerry Spence

The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

Harry Chapin

Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

Clancy Brown

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Clarence Darrow

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Dan Chaon

A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits, snippets of conversation, continual action, and so on. I frequently rely pretty heavily on voice.

David Foster

Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.

Miley Cyrus

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

Jessica Simpson

I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice.

Frances O'Grady

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

George Santayana

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Emma Forrest

Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.