Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Garcia

I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.

Andrea Hirata

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,

Andrea Hirata

My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless.

Andrea Bocelli

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

Andrea Bocelli

Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

Andrea Bocelli

The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.

Andrea Bocelli

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

Andrea Bocelli

I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

Andrea Bocelli

I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

Adora Svitak

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

Adam McKay

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Abraham Maslow

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

Alec Guinness

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

Alfred Lunt

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

Alcuin

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Alcuin

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Aldous Huxley

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

Aberjhani

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Aaron Neville

My voice belongs to me, from God. People will comment, "Your voice helped me through." Maybe it's God in me, because I don't take credit for that.

A. R. Rahman

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

A. R. Rahman

I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

A. R. Rahman

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

Abbas Kiarostami

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Abbas Kiarostami

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Adrienne Rich

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

Agatha Christie

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

Agatha Christie

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Jane Addams

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

Jane Austen

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

Jan Eliasson

Our work must remain open and transparent so that we hear the voices of all

Jamie Lee Curtis

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.