Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Heath Ledger

I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts

Hesiod

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

Helen Mirren

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

Helen Mirren

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

Henry Wotton

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Henry Winkler

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Henry Winkler

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Henry Ward Beecher

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

Henry Fielding

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Helen Vendler

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Helen Vendler

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

Helena Bonham Carter

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

Khalil Gibran

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Khalil Gibran

Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice...

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

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.