Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Gilligan

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Carnie Wilson

I want to get into voice-overs.

Carol Burnett

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

Alan Lightman

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Alain de Botton

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Al Bernstein

The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.

Al Gore

It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.

Charles James Fox

What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.

Charles Kingsley

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Charles Churchill

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

Bill Hicks

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Elie Wiesel

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

Elie Wiesel

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

Edward Norton

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

Britney Spears

I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.

Brian Lumley

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Barbara Jordan

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Barbara Deming

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Bernie Worrell

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

Bruce Springsteen

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

Bruce Springsteen

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

Brian Jacques

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Jane Hirshfield

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Jamie Cullum

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

Benjamin Franklin

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

Ben Brantley

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

Arthur Godfrey

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

Arthur Erickson

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Bella Thorne

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

bell hooks

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.