Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Anouilh

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Jay-Z

The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

Jay Leno

Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard.

Carlo Collodi

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Carlisle Floyd

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

Bryan Cranston

There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.

James Herbert

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

James Hogg

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

James Hetfield

Music was the voice I didn't have.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I never raise my voice!

K'naan

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

K'naan

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Milos Zeman

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Milton Friedman

The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

Kelly Wearstler

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Kelly Wearstler

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

Kathy Mattea

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

Katherine Jenkins

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Kate Christensen

Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

Julian Casablancas

I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.

Kristanna Loken

I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.

Kris Carr

It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Kim Harrison

I didn’t know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent’s very muzzy voice murmured, “Rachel? Mmm, hi.

Kim Harrison

I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me.

Kenan Thompson

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

Ice Cube

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

Isak Dinesen

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

Iris Murdoch

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

Gloria Steinem

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

J. Michael Straczynski

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

J. Michael Straczynski

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

J. K. Rowling

Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?' 'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack.

J. K. Rowling

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.