Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Osborne

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

John Mortimer

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Jimmy Wales

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Geddy Lee

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

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."

Lou Reed

You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck..

Mao Zedong

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

Lou Ferrigno

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

John Fowles

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

John Flanagan

[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'... 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now.' 'Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right.

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.

Julio Iglesias

I have discipline; I look after my voice.

Juliette Lewis

I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

John Lennon

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

John Lasseter

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

Jimmy Buffett

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Joanna Newsom

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Jim Rohn

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Jim Rohn

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Jim Rohn

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

George Matthew Adams

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

Emily Levine

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.