Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elia Kazan

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

Barbara Deming

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Bernie Worrell

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

Bruce Springsteen

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

Britney Spears

I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.

Brian Lumley

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Barbara Jordan

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Augustus

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,

Ayn Rand

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

Ben Kingsley

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

Dionne Warwick

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Dave Pelzer

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

Dave Mustaine

I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

Samuel Butler

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Alexander Hamilton

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Adele

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

Adam Braun

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Adam Brody

I have a pretty lousy voice.

Abraham Lincoln

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Anita Baker

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.

Anita Baker

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

Andy Kaufman

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

Amy Ray

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.

Alison Moyet

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

Anthony Jeselnik

Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

Ann Brashares

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.