Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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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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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 think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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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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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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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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Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.
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I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
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When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
