Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Jonathan Safran Foer

However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

Naomi Wolf

Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.

Norman Mailer

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Oliver Sacks

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music..

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

Michael Caine

I've done a lot of radio in my life so I am absolutely used of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.

Melanie Chisholm

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Mason Cooley

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Michio Kaku

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

Mahatma Gandhi

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

Harvey Fierstein

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

James Madison

But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.

James Longstreet

My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; I can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes I feel as if I wished the end would come; but I have some misrepresentations of my battles that I wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before I die.

James MacArthur

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

James MacArthur

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

Joe Eszterhas

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

Joan Didion

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Joan Didion

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

Eric Sevareid

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Eric McCormack

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

Eric McCormack

Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

Emma Thompson

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

Heidi Klum

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

John Mellencamp

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

John McCain

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

John Irving

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.

Rainer Maria Rilke

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Shane Koyczan

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.