Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

Joe Mantegna

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

Joanne Woodward

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

Joaquin Phoenix

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

Joe Eszterhas

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

Joan Didion

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Eric Sevareid

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Eric McCormack

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

Eric McCormack

Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

Emma Thompson

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

Heidi Klum

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

John Mellencamp

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

John McCain

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

John Irving

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.

John Guare

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

Ayn Rand

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Rick Springfield

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.

You can't just work on the voice or work on how he walks or how he feels,

Gerard Way

I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

Greta Scacchi

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

Henry David Thoreau

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.

Henry David Thoreau

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Ezekiel Emanuel

I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.

Eudora Welty

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

Erwin McManus

When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

Erykah Badu

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

Ernest Newman

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.