Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wolcott

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

Jason Calacanis

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Jasmine Guy

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

Miley Cyrus

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

Burton Cummings

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

Carol Gilligan

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

Carol Gilligan

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Carnie Wilson

I want to get into voice-overs.

Carol Burnett

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

Alan Lightman

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Alain de Botton

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Al Bernstein

The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.

Al Gore

It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.

Charles James Fox

What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.

Charles Kingsley

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Charles Churchill

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

Brenda Holloway

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

Branford Marsalis

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

Barry Hannah

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Artie Lange

If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?

Aristophanes

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Anton Yelchin

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

Brittany Murphy

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Brittany Murphy

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

Brian Wilson

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

Edwidge Danticat

I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.

Edmund Burke

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

Eckhart Tolle

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

Elie Wiesel

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

Elie Wiesel

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

Edward Norton

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.