Voice famous quotes
04-09-2025
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
-- A. J. Jacobs -
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.
-- 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 am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
-- Aamir Khan -
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?†I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.
-- Abbi Glines -
Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.
-- Abbi Glines -
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
-- Abbie Cornish -
There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
-- Abby Elliott -
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
-- Aberjhani -
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
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.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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 Braun -
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
-- Adam Brody -
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.
-- Adam Fletcher -
'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
-- Adam Levine -
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
-- Adam Savage -
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
-- Additi Gupta -
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.
-- Adora Svitak -
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
-- Adrienne Rich -
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
-- Agnes Obel -
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
In winter, some voices are like coats.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way?
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
-- Aimee Carter -
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
-- Akhil Sharma -
Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.
-- Akon -
It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
-- Akshay Kumar -
The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.
-- Al Bernstein -
The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
-- Al Stewart -
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
-- Alan Jackson -
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume†- because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voicesâ€. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
-- Alan Kay -
When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.
-- Alan Ladd -
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.
-- Alan Lightman -
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
-- Alan Moore -
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
-- Alan Moore -
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
-- Alan Paton -
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
-- Alan Rickman -
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
-- Alan Turing -
Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!
-- Alane Ferguson -
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
-- Albert Einstein -
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
-- Albrecht Durer -
The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.
-- Alcee Hastings -
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.
-- 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 -
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
-- Aldous Huxley -
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
-- Alec Guinness -
Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble
-- Alethea Kontis -
Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch
-- Alexander Lowen -
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.
-- Alexander Moody Stuart -
I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
-- Alexander Payne -
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
-- Alexander Pope -
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.
-- Alfred Lunt -
I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
-- Alfred Lunt -
In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.
-- Alice Oswald -
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
-- Alice Walker -
I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.
-- Alicia Keys -
The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.
-- Alicia Ostriker -
New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
-- Alison Fell -
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
-- Alison Moyet -
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
-- Alla Nazimova -
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.
-- Allen Sapp -
I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.
-- Allen West -
You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.
-- Allen West -
It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.
-- Allison Janney -
What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.
-- Ally Carter -
So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.
-- Ally Carter -
Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.
-- Ally Carter -
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
-- Alma Gluck -
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
-- Alma Gluck -
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.
-- Alonzo King -
Some may say I'm perceptive" "And what would you say?" I ask, my voice edgy, tired of being toyed with. "I'd say I agree.
-- Alyson Noel -
I think that the celebrity is a really important thing, because we have the voice that's recognizable, that can educate people to make a difference and empower them to make a difference, and to also get things in motion with the people in charge that can effect change.
-- Alyssa Milano -
I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.
-- Amanda McKerrow -
Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.
-- Amanda Seyfried
