Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, we make of our possessions a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

Mickey Hart

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

Naveen Jain

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

Julian Lennon

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

Judy Holliday

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

Judy Collins

I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

Patrick Warburton

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else

Paramahansa Yogananda

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

Ozwald Boateng

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

Ovid

Often a silent face has voice and words.

Ovid

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

Ovid

Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

P. C. Cast

How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.

Paul Martin

There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience.

Paul McCartney

I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

Patty Griffin

Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

Paule Marshall

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

Paul Westerberg

I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

Paul Watson

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

Mary Oliver

...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.

Martin Cruz Smith

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Pope Benedict XVI

Listen to the voice of the earth...

Joe Eszterhas

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

Joan Didion

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Joan Didion

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

Eric Sevareid

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Eric McCormack

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

Eric McCormack

Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

Emma Thompson

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

Heidi Klum

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

John Mellencamp

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

John McCain

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

John Irving

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.