Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy McGrady

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Tori Amos

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

Verne Lundquist

Pardon me while I lower my voice.

Steve Vai

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

Veronica Roth

I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

Vince Staples

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Vince Gill

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.

Vince Vaughn

I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.

Robert G. Allen

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

Rufus Wainwright

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

Rodney Crowell

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

Robertson Davies

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

Sarah Rees Brennan

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

Willa Cather

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

Virginia Woolf

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

William Blake

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Salman Rushdie

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

Salman Rushdie

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

Salman Rushdie

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Salman Rushdie

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Whitney Houston

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

Wanda Sykes

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

W. H. Auden

All I have is a voice.

Virginia Madsen

I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film. I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

W. H. Auden

Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

William Cowper

The still small voice is wanted.

Wayne Dyer

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Tove Jansson

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

Ursula K. Le Guin

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

William H. Gass

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William Arthur Ward

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.