Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Hopkins

A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

Joan Blondell

In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

Joan Baez

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linda Ronstadt

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Linda Cardellini

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Leo Tolstoy

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is love in search of a voice.

Leif Johansson

The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.

Lady Gaga

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Lady Gaga

You can’t stop my voice cause You don't own my life but Do what you want (with my body)

Lewis Carroll

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

Joyce Meyer

When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

Karl Shapiro

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

Molly Quinn

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Philip Glass

The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

Peter Lerangis

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Peter Kreeft

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Peter S. Beagle

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Rabindranath Tagore

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Rabindranath Tagore

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

Rabindranath Tagore

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Placido Domingo

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Placido Domingo

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Placido Domingo

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Maggie Stiefvater

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

Maggie Stiefvater

his voice was centuries old

Maggie Stiefvater

One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.

Maggie Stiefvater

From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was a terrific crash. Ronan's voice rose, exasperated. "Not that one, Noah.

Macy Gray

My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.

Haruki Murakami

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.