Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Madsen

I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film. I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

W. H. Auden

Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

William Cowper

The still small voice is wanted.

Wayne Dyer

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Tove Jansson

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

Ursula K. Le Guin

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Walt Whitman

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

Walt Whitman

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Saul Williams

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

Sarah Dessen

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it -- it wan't Will's. It was mine.

Sarah Dessen

I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?

Roger Ebert

Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!

Rod Stewart

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

Rod Stewart

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.

Robert Scheer

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Robert Shaw

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

Robert Purvis

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Robert Plant

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

Robert Plant

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You've got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you're just a singer for the sake of it, it's not quite enough.

Robert Plant

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

Sarah Waters

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Yoko Ono

I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.

Willow Smith

Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

William P. Young

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

Thomas Perry

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Robert Anton Wilson

How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

Rob Paulsen

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'