Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

Audre Lorde

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.

Ednita Nazario

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion

Edna O'Brien

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Bobby Heenan

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat

Bobby McFerrin

The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.

Benjamin Franklin

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

Ben Brantley

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

Axl Rose

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

Arthur Godfrey

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

Arthur Erickson

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Bella Thorne

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

bell hooks

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

Arvo Part

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

Anthony Trollope

When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.

Diane Duane

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

Diana Wynne Jones

Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Demi Lovato

Find your purpose, find your voice.

Demi Lovato

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

Demi Lovato

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.

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

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

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.

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.