Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

Agnes Repplier

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Aasif Mandvi

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

Charles Caleb Colton

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Brian Wilson

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Brian Wilson

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

Brian Wilson

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Brian Eno

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Brenda Ueland

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Heraclitus Ephesus

The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself

Evan Osnos

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

Nasser Hussain

We are seeing Australia being drawn back to the way the rest of the world has to play Test cricket because without either of their two all-time greats - McGrath and Warne - they just cannot play like they have become accustomed to,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

Alvin Wyatt

We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does.

Andy Geiger

This program is much more about players than most. Jim came in, immediately got to know so much about each individual player and his family and about their experiences. It's a much more personal approach than most were accustomed to. Within the family, it became a small-college feel.

Kim Ji-woon

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

Tom Rachman

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.

Twyla Tharp

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account.