Alec Guinness Quotes

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

Alec Guinness

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• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.

  

  Flume
  • Free
  • Better
  • Voice

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

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Journey
  • End

• Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Difficult
  • Nobody
  • Silver

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• 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.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Voice
  • Lonely

• 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

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Voice
  • Actor
  • Disney

• I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Plant

• 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.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Parents
  • Voice
  • Gift

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

  

  Ian Hart
  • Film
  • Voice
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Man
  • Voice
  • Really

• 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
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Why
  • Me
  • Single

• This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Nature
  • Society

• Sin carries in it its own misery.

  

  John Piper
  • Sin
  • Misery
  • Carries

• A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Voice
  • Silver
  • Tenor