Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Gail Carson Levine

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

Gail Carson Levine

Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

Gabrielle Zevin

Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD.' Liz turns to Thandi. 'I thought you said you didn't remember how you got the hole in your head.' Thandi apologizes. 'I just remembered.' 'Shot in the head!' Florence-scratchy-voice says. 'Oy, that's rough.' 'Aw, it's nothing special. Happens pretty regularly where I'm from,' Thandi says. 'WHAT?' asks Myrna with the moustache. 'Say it toward my left ear, that's the good one.' 'I SAID, "IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL,"' Thandi yells/

Fred Upton

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Frank Luntz

By the way, for those who are listening, I absolutely define - I have a face for radio. Unfortunately, I've got a voice for print. So I apologize for the sandpaper you're listening to.

Norman Mailer

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Oliver Sacks

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music..

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

Emile M. Cioran

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Ellen Lupton

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

Ellen G. White

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

Ellen G. White

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

Emily Giffin

I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Emeli Sande

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

Emeli Sande

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Heath Ledger

I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts

Hesiod

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

Helen Mirren

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

Helen Mirren

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

Henry Wotton

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Henry Winkler

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Henry Winkler

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Henry Ward Beecher

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

Henry Fielding

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Helen Vendler

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Helen Vendler

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

Helena Bonham Carter

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!