Famous Quotes & Sayings

Little Milton

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

Oscar Wilde

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

Paul Fleischman

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Patrick Rothfuss

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

Padma Lakshmi

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,

Learned Hand

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Lauren Oliver

He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.

Lauren Oliver

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.

Lauren Oliver

Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?" "Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say. "I promise," he whispers.

Lake Bell

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

L. Frank Baum

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

Pablo Picasso

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

Paul Jacob

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

Oprah Winfrey

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

Oprah Winfrey

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

Oprah Winfrey

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

Oprah Winfrey

Always listen to your inner voice.

Margaret Atwood

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

Margaret Atwood

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.

Khloe Kardashian

If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.

Kenny G

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Ken Loach

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

Ken Livingstone

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Kelly Corrigan

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.

Kelly Cutrone

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Kelly Cutrone

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Margaret Cho

Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

Elia Kazan

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

Paul Westerberg

I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

Paul Watson

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

Mary Oliver

...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.

Martin Cruz Smith

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.