Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Madsen

I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film. I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

W. H. Auden

Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

William Cowper

The still small voice is wanted.

Wayne Dyer

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Tove Jansson

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

Ursula K. Le Guin

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

William H. Gass

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William Arthur Ward

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

Stephenie Meyer

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

Stephenie Meyer

His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb.

Stephenie Meyer

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.

Stefano Langone

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

Stella Adler

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

Stefan Zweig

I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

Sophie Kinsella

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

Thomas Gray

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

Thomas Gray

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Thomas Hardy

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Victoria Woodhull

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Victoria Legrand

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

Victoria Osteen

It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.

Victor Hugo

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

Russell M. Nelson

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

Russell Simmons

I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.

Russell Simmons

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Russell Simmons

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

Sam Keen

I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

Sally Hawkins

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

Ruth Wilson

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Susan Rice

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Susan Faludi

The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.