Zitkala-Sa Quotes

The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

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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.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Doing

• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• 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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Help
  • Voice
  • Media

• I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Film
  • Voice
  • Own

• My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Bad
  • Listening
  • Advice

• I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Sing
  • Hurts

• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • King
  • Voice
  • Popular

• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Mind
  • Voice
  • Themselves

• I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Words
  • Me
  • Voice

• Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Political
  • Voice

• The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Voice

• My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Father
  • Voice

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Race

• I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Lake

• Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • People
  • Voice
  • Everyday

• And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Voice

• When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Band
  • Voice
  • Mouths

• I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Playing
  • Cute
  • Image

• Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Experience

• I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Loved
  • Theater

• The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

  

  Zitkala-Sa
  • Voice
  • Breathing
  • Twittering