Quotes with voice

  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
  • One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
  • People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
  • The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
  • Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
  • If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.
  • However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
  • It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
  • The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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  • Billy Mays My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carrie Chapman Catt In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
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  • Ben Lovett 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Isaac Watts 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
    Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Bill McKibben A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alec Guinness A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Caleb Cushing And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Alcuin of York And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
    Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
    Epistle 127
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Ben Harper As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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