Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Karen Russell

Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

Ellie Goulding

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

Ellie Goulding

I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

Joan Blondell

In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

John Fowles

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

Joyce Carol Oates

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

James Madison

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

James MacArthur

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

James MacArthur

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

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.

John Guare

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

John Frusciante

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

John Osborne

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

John Osborne

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

John Mortimer

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Jimmy Wales

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Geddy Lee

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

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.