Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Vernor Vinge

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Veronica Roth

May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

Veronica Roth

He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

Veronica Roth

You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong.

Robert Frost

I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

Rita Dove

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

Renee Fleming

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

Renee Fleming

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

Renee Fleming

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

Thomas Hughes

Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.

Rumi

We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror

Rumi

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

Rumi

Raise your words, not your voice.

Rumi

At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

Rumi

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Rumi

There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.

Rumi

Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise.

Rumi

No more words. Hear only the voice within.

Tom Robbins

His voice wore no pants.

Tom Ford

I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

Tom Bodett

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

Tom Baker

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

Tony Goldwyn

In television, the creator is really the voice.

Stephen Crane

I walked in a desert. And I cried, ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’ I cried, ‘Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’ A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

Stephen Covey

I keep my phone number unlisted and rely on my associates to handle all voice mail, e-mail, faxes.

Stephen Covey

The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.

Stephen Covey

The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.