Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Plant

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

Sarah Waters

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Sara Shepard

If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.

Robert Anton Wilson

How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

Rob Paulsen

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

Reba McEntire

Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.

Richard Pryor

When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people. The voice said, But do you see any niggers? I said, No. It said, Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any.

Tracy McGrady

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Tori Amos

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

Verne Lundquist

Pardon me while I lower my voice.

Steve Vai

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

Veronica Roth

I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

Vince Staples

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Vince Gill

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.

Vince Vaughn

I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.

Robert G. Allen

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

Rufus Wainwright

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

Rodney Crowell

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

Robertson Davies

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

Sarah Rees Brennan

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle.

Willa Cather

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

Virginia Woolf

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

William Blake

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Salman Rushdie

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

Salman Rushdie

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

Salman Rushdie

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Salman Rushdie

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Whitney Houston

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

Wanda Sykes

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

W. H. Auden

All I have is a voice.