Ernest Cline Quotes
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
Quotes to Explore
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.
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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
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I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
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My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
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“Glazed brick, white mortar, and blue roof-tiles do not make a house beautiful; carved rosewood, gold cloth, and clear green jade do not furnish a house with grace; a man of cultivated mind makes a house of mud and wattle beautiful; a woman, even with a pock-marked face; if refined of heart, fills a house with grace. -House of Exile”
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
