Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Griffin

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

Susan Cain

The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.

Sufjan Stevens

I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.

Stokely Carmichael

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Sting

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Stevie Wonder

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

Steve Jobs

Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.

Steve Coogan

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

Steve Coogan

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

Stephen Frears

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

Molly Quinn

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like youre three, except you can talk and read.

Philip Glass

The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

Peter Lerangis

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Peter Kreeft

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Peter S. Beagle

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Rabindranath Tagore

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Rabindranath Tagore

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

Rabindranath Tagore

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Placido Domingo

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Placido Domingo

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Placido Domingo

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Terence McKenna

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Terence McKenna

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

Ted Hughes

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

Randall Jarrell

Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

Shania Twain

My voice is stronger today than ever.

Shania Twain

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Shania Twain

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

Selma Blair

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

Shuler Hensley

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

Sia Furler

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

Shunryu Suzuki

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.