Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

John Keats

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linda Ronstadt

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Linda Cardellini

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Leo Tolstoy

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

Gayle Forman

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

Gayle Forman

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?

Louise Rennison

And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

Loretta Young

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

Lord Byron

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

M. Night Shyamalan

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

M. Night Shyamalan

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Loren Eiseley

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Mahathir Mohamad

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Mahalia Jackson

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

Mahatma Gandhi

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Gail Carson Levine

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

Gail Carson Levine

Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

Fred Upton

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Harlan Coben

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

John Lennon

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

John Lasseter

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

Jimmy Buffett

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Joanna Newsom

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Jim Rohn

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Jim Rohn

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Jim Rohn

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

George Matthew Adams

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

Emily Levine

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.