Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Rush

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

Gary Shteyngart

America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

Christine Ebersole

I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.

Chris O'Dowd

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

George W. Bush

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

George W. Bush

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

George W. Bush

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

George R. R. Martin

When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.

George R. R. Martin

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

George R. R. Martin

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Garth Nix

I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall... “And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer.” “Twice,” added the voice under the table.

Frederick Buechner

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.

George Edward Woodberry

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

Fergie

I may not have the type of voice you like, but I can sing. You can’t take that away from me, ‘cause singing is a gift from God, and when people say I can’t sing, it’s kind of like insulting God.

Federico Fellini

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Fatou Bensouda

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Fareed Zakaria

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

F. L. Lucas

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Francis Bacon

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Francis Bacon

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Grimes

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

Grimes

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

Graham Greene

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Gerald Durrell

As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

Harriet Martineau

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

Gregory Harrison

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

Greil Marcus

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place.

Greil Marcus

I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.

Gregory Benford

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Gregory David Roberts

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Gregory Maguire

All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,

Gregory Maguire

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.