Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michelle Kwan

I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out.

Siegfried Sassoon

His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

Sherilyn Fenn

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. Id like to do a musical someday.

John Guare

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

John Frusciante

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

John Osborne

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

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..