Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wilson

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

Brian Wilson

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Brian Eno

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Bret Harte

Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

Bret Easton Ellis

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest.

Brandi Carlile

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

Bob Dylan

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Bob Dylan

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

Bob Dylan

Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

Billy Collins

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Billy Collins

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Billy Connolly

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women.

Billy Corgan

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

Boy George

I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

Bridgit Mendler

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

Bruce Springsteen

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

Brian Jacques

Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Jane Hirshfield

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Jamie Cullum

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

Bill Hicks

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Demetri Martin

Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.

Dean Koontz

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

Daniel Handler

With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.

Dana Gioia

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?

Damon Wayans, Jr.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

Coco Chanel

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

Elia Kazan

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.