Voice Quotes
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In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"
Nikolai Gogol
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James Anthony Froude
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.
Guan Moye
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This very deep, soothing voice came on, saying: "You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do." I could feel it in every cell of my body, and I immediately realized, there's something here. I could feel my heart rate slow down. I could feel stress melting out of my body.
Brad Willis
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A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
Eugene Ionesco
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O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
Walt Whitman
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If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
Lord Byron
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime.
Lisa Kudrow
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
Natalie Portman
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
Henry Louis Gates
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I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
Meredith Monk
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For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is.
Wayne Watson
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Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.
Nate Dogg
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In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.
Catherine Cortez Masto
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
Rumi
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Part of the journey here on Earth is learning how to discipline ourselves to set aside all of the voices and get to that deep voice within.
Echo Bodine
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I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.
Rod Stewart
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
William Blake
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
William Kittredge
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
Eudora Welty
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I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.
Scarlett Johansson