Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage.

J. K. Rowling

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

J. K. Rowling

Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

J. K. Rowling

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

J. K. Rowling

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless..

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Grace Jones

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

Grace Jones

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

J. William Fulbright

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

Jessica Simpson

I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice.

Ian Hart

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

Hugh Jackman

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

Huey Long

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

Howard Dean

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

Honore de Balzac

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Honore de Balzac

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Harvey Milk

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

James Blunt

I'm screaming at the top of my voice

Jackie Evancho

Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.

Jackie Evancho

That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

Jacki Weaver

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

J. R. R. Tolkien

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

J. R. R. Tolkien

The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.

Iyanla Vanzant

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

Indra Devi

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.

Jurnee Smollett

Never let anyone silence your voice.

Julia Ormond

For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.

Julia Quinn

Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to Daphne

Judd Gregg

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

Little Milton

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

Oscar Wilde

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.