Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Witold Walczak

There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.

Wilson Pickett

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

Will Oldham

To sing with other people and for other people, that's when you can really learn something about your voice. You can only learn so much if you create your own boundaries all the time. But then, other people can really teach you something. You know, if you're trying to sing with them, or if someone brings a style.

Will Rogers

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

Wes Borland

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

Will Oldham

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

Will Oldham

If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.

W. Eugene Smith

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

Zachary Quinto

I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

Zachary Quinto

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Zach Braff

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

William H. Gass

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William Arthur Ward

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

Wassily Kandinsky

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

Yo-Yo Ma

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

Winifred Holtby

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

Rick Warren

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

Rick Warren

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.

Rick Riordan

NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!

Steve Vai

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

Veronica Roth

I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

Vince Staples

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Vince Gill

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.

Vince Vaughn

I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.

Robert G. Allen

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

Rufus Wainwright

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

William Dean Howells

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

Wendell Phillips

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

Wendell Berry

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

Wadah Khanfar

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.