Elena Ferrante Quotes
She expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but – further – she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, the confusion of the oral.Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant -
I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
Taylor Momsen -
My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
Mandy Patinkin -
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
Salman Rushdie -
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Ovid
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
Ian Hart -
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter -
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.
Barack Obama -
The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
Vance McAllister -
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 -
I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
Zachary Knighton
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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
Yoko Ono -
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Candice Bergen -
I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
J. K. Simmons -
Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
Sam Smith -
When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.
Malorie Blackman -
Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
Lesley Lawson
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran Lebowitz -
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.
Carl Hilty -
She expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but – further – she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, the confusion of the oral.
Elena Ferrante