Voice Quotes
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I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.
Michael Ironside
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If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.
Kat Cole
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So she ignored Mrs. Arbuthnot's remark and raised forefinger, and said with marked coldness—at least, she tried to make it sound marked— that she supposed they would be going to breakfast, and that she had had hers; but it was her fate that however coldly she sent forth her words they came out sounding quite warm and agreeable. That was because she had a sympathetic and delightful voice, due entirely to some special formation of her throat and the roof of her mouth, and having nothing whatever to do with what she was feeling. Nobody in consequence ever believed they were being snubbed. It was most tiresome. And if she stared icily it did not look icy at all, because her eyes, lovely to begin with, had the added loveliness of very long, soft, dark eyelashes. No icy stare could come out of eyes like that; it got caught and lost in the soft eyelashes, and the persons stared at merely thought they were being regarded with a flattering and exquisite attentiveness. And if ever she was out of humour or definitely cross— and who would not be sometimes in such a world?—-she only looked so pathetic that people all rushed to comfort her, if possible by means of kissing. It was more than tiresome, it was maddening. Nature was determined that she should look and sound angelic. She could never be disagreeable or rude without being completely misunderstood.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
Erica Jong
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In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.
Esai Morales
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Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
Mia Hamm
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I have a deep, scratchy voice. Boys would call me Froggy, and my father would often tell me to shut my 'big bazoo.' I remember standing in line for confession. After I walked out, the other kids were like, 'You punched your sister in the face?' Because of my voice, my confession was like speaking into a loudspeaker.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
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Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.
Richard Sherman
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Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
Millicent Fawcett
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You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.
Robin Williams
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He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.
Charles Dickens
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When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen
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I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
Nikki Haley
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I'm the voice of honesty.
Howard Stern
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There hasn't been an original voice in stand-up since Sam Kinison.
Norm MacDonald
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I stayed in a dark corner of the house dreaming the story of the poverella's waterlogged, lifeless body, a silver anchovy to be preserved in salt. And whenever, later, I played at whipping the air to get it to whine, I thought of her, the woman in salt. I heard the voice of her drowning, as she slid through the water all night, as far as Capo Miseno. Now, just thinking about it, I felt like whipping the air of the pinewood harder and harder, like a child, to evoke the spirits, perhaps to chase them away, and the more energy I put into it, the sharper the whistle became. I burst into laughter, alone, seeing myself like that, a thirty-eight-year-old woman in serious trouble who suddenly returns to her childhood game. Yes, I said to myself, we do, we imagine, even as adults, a lot of silly things, out of joy or exhaustion. And I laughed, waving that long thin branch, and felt more and more like laughing.
Elena Ferrante
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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
Ernie Harwell
