Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith McNaught

How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.

Judith McNaught

Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for my lack of all the others." Stephen and Clayton grinned at each other, neither of them hearing the emotion that clogged her voice. "What splendid accomplishments is that, little one?" Clayton asked. Her shoulders hunched forward and began to shake. "I made you love me," she whispered brokenly. "Somehow, some way, I actually made you love me.

Judith McNaught

Was it me you were discussing?” he countered with lifted brows. “I couldn’t tell from the description you were giving. Since when am I kind, considerate, refined, and amiable?” “You’re angry,” Victoria concluded on a sigh. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest and his arms tightened, drawing her close to his leann, muscular body. “I’m not angry,” he said in a husky, gentle voice. “I’m embarrassed

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

Karen Joy Fowler

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

Karen Russell

Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

Justin Long

When you hear a famous voice, sometimes that takes me out of the movie.

Joseph Conrad

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

Joseph Fiennes

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Kate Smith

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Kate Millett

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

Karlheinz Stockhausen

When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.

Leona Lewis

Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!

Leonard Cohen

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Leonard Cohen

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Lawrence Welk

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

John Keats

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Gayle Forman

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

Gayle Forman

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?

Louise Rennison

And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

Loretta Young

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

Lord Byron

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

M. Night Shyamalan

Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

M. Night Shyamalan

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Loren Eiseley

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Mahathir Mohamad

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Mahalia Jackson

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

Mahatma Gandhi

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Gail Carson Levine

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.