Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Vonnegut

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

Mark Batterson

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

Mark Batterson

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

Marianne Faithfull

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

Marianne Faithfull

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

Naguib Mahfouz

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

Miriam Hopkins

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

Miriam Makeba

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

Miriam Makeba

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising,

Pierre Omidyar

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

Nelson Mandela

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death

Nelson Mandela

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

Oprah Winfrey

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

Oprah Winfrey

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

Oprah Winfrey

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

Oprah Winfrey

Always listen to your inner voice.

Margaret Atwood

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

Margaret Atwood

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.

Khloe Kardashian

If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.

Kenny G

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Ken Loach

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

Ken Livingstone

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Kelly Corrigan

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.

Kelly Cutrone

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Kelly Cutrone

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Margaret Cho

Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

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.

Paul Fleischman

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Patrick Rothfuss

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

Padma Lakshmi

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,

Learned Hand

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.