Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Shiri Appleby

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

Li Bingbing

I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

Leymah Gbowee

Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.

Lesley Garrett

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

Leonard Mlodinow

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Lee Krasner

I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.

The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.

Marc Morial

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

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.

Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

Robert Louis Stevenson

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Robert Fitzgerald

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Wesley Clark

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

Walt Whitman

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

Walt Whitman

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Tom Hardy

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Tom Hanks

An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.

Toby Jones

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

Tina Weymouth

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

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.