Voice Quotes
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
You can look up "heart" and get 100,000 voices, but slowly the ones at the end are no longer credible, so there will be a selection in Web sites, too.
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.
In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
We have developed psychic powers in other lives. Now we have many problems because of it, many voices in the mind due to this crowded earth.
If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.
By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.
People see a big dude and they hear that high pitched voice or "Eglasias with an 'I'" and love it because they can relate and go "I know that person!".
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
I believe in the rights of every individual and to have the opportunity to help strengthen our members and to give them voice has been a privilege. I really am honored.
Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.
I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.
Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.
And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?
You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?
Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?
Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.
A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.
I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup.
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?