Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pol Pot

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

Pope Benedict XVI

Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, we make of our possessions a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

Mickey Hart

The voice of the drum is a spirit thing.

Naveen Jain

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

Molly Quinn

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like youre three, except you can talk and read.

Philip Glass

The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

Peter Lerangis

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Terry Pratchett

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

Terry Pratchett

You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

Terry Crews

Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.

Terry Gilliam

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

Tennessee Williams

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Terence McKenna

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Terence McKenna

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

Ted Hughes

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

Randall Jarrell

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

Shania Twain

My voice is stronger today than ever.

Shania Twain

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Shania Twain

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

Selma Blair

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

Shuler Hensley

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

Sia Furler

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

Shunryu Suzuki

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Shiri Appleby

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

Li Bingbing

I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

Leymah Gbowee

Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.

Lesley Garrett

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

Leonard Mlodinow

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Lee Krasner

I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.

The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.

Marc Morial

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.