Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winifred Holtby

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

William Safire

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

Vincent D'Onofrio

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

Saint Augustine

The one who sings, prays twice.

Saint Augustine

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Yahoo Serious

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Witold Walczak

There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.

Wilson Pickett

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

Will Oldham

To sing with other people and for other people, that's when you can really learn something about your voice. You can only learn so much if you create your own boundaries all the time. But then, other people can really teach you something. You know, if you're trying to sing with them, or if someone brings a style.

Will Rogers

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

Wes Borland

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

Will Oldham

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

Will Oldham

If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.

W. Eugene Smith

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

Zachary Quinto

I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

Zachary Quinto

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Zach Braff

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

William Dean Howells

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

Wendell Phillips

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

Wendell Berry

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

Wadah Khanfar

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

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.