Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Harkness

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

Dierks Bentley

Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.

Dick Cavett

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Dick Cavett

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

Diana Krall

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers...

Edward Snowden

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

Earl Sweatshirt

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.

Ednita Nazario

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion

Edna O'Brien

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Bobby Heenan

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat

Bobby McFerrin

The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.

Augustus

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,

Ayn Rand

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

Ayn Rand

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

Daniel Handler

With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.

Dana Gioia

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?

Damon Wayans, Jr.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

Coco Chanel

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

Elia Kazan

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

Alec Guinness

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

Alfred Lunt

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

Alcuin

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Alcuin

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Aldous Huxley

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

Alexander Hamilton

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Adele

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.