Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Oliver

He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.

Lauren Oliver

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.

Lauren Oliver

Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?" "Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say. "I promise," he whispers.

Lake Bell

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

L. Frank Baum

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

Pablo Picasso

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

Paul Jacob

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

Patti Page

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

Isak Dinesen

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

Iris Murdoch

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

Gloria Steinem

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

J. Michael Straczynski

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

J. Michael Straczynski

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

J. K. Rowling

Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?' 'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack.

J. K. Rowling

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

J. K. Rowling

Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?" "Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice. "All right- PLEASE." "NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage.

Kelly Wearstler

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Kelly Wearstler

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

Kathy Mattea

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

Katherine Jenkins

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Kate Christensen

Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

Julian Casablancas

I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.

Kristanna Loken

I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.

Kris Carr

It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Kim Harrison

I didn’t know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent’s very muzzy voice murmured, “Rachel? Mmm, hi.

Kim Harrison

I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me.

Kenan Thompson

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

Michael Ironside

I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.

Michael Bay

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

Randy Quaid

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

Rand Paul

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

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.