Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elayne Boosler

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

Edward T. Hall

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

Eddie George

Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would let me have it. I could be on the other side of the house doing my voice lessons and she would scream, "Drop your jaw for those long notes."

Hoda Kotb

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

Holly Black

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.

Hermann Hesse

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Hermann Hesse

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

Joseph Addison

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Jordin Sparks

I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.

Jorge Luis Borges

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

Kevin Rudd

I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

Kevin Spacey

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

Kevin Conroy

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

Kelli White

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.

Khalil Gibran

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Khalil Gibran

Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice...

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Jonathan Safran Foer

However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

Naomi Wolf

Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.

Louise Rennison

And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

Loretta Young

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

Lord Byron

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

M. Night Shyamalan

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

M. Night Shyamalan

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Loren Eiseley

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Mahathir Mohamad

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Mahalia Jackson

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

Mahatma Gandhi

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.