300 Quotes on Voice

• Mental toughness is the skilled art of dancing with discomfort until resilience becomes second nature.

  Author: Elara Windfall

• Mental toughness is not simply endurance in adversity, but the artistry of confidence triumphed under uncertainty.

  Author: Riley Morgan

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  Author: The British Songstress - Adele Adkins

• Empower yourself and your voice will ignite worlds.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• Where there is bravery, there is a voice that refuses to be silenced.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

  Author: Loretta Young

• My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

  Author: Andrew Young

• A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.

  Author: Isabel Yosito

• A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

  Author: Chely Wright

• People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

  Author: Joanne Woodward

• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

  Author: James Woods

• I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

  Author: Paul Wolfowitz

• All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• 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.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

  Author: Kip Winger

• We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

  Author: Kip Winger

• Voice is my instrument.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I started writing more with my voice in mind.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Author: Theodore White

• I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

  Author: Meg White

• The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.

  Author: Kelli White

• Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

  Author: Shane West

• You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

  Author: Allen West

• If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

  Author: Jackie Weaver

• 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

  Author: Isaac Watts

• The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

  Author: Mike Watt

• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  Author: Muddy Waters

• My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs.

  Author: Rob Walton

• For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

  Author: James Walsh

• I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

  Author: Jon Voight

• With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

  Author: Don Vliet

• So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

  Author: Tim Vine

• And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.

  Author: Alan Vega

• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  Author: Eddie Vedder

• All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

  Author: Tracey Ullman

• Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

  Author: Shania Twain

• My voice is stronger today than ever.

  Author: Shania Twain

• Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

  Author: Janine Turner

• The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

  Author: David Tudor

• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

  Author: Spencer Tracy

• A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

  Author: Bryn Terfel

• Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

  Author: Amy Tan

• It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

  Author: Steve Swallow

• Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

  Author: John Sununu

• I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  Author: Tara Strong

• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  Author: Tara Strong

• My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

  Author: Richard Strauss

• There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

  Author: David Strathairn

• The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

  Author: Angie Stone

• The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

  Author: Al Stewart

• I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Author: Michael Steele

• Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

  Author: Harry Stanton

• I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

  Author: Harry Stanton

• God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  Author: Madame Stael

• Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

  Author: Jerry Springer

• If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

  Author: Mickey Spillane

• I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

  Author: James Somerville

• Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

  Author: Brett Somers

• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

  Author: Tom Snyder

• For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  Author: W. Smith

• I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

  Author: Martin Smith

• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  Author: Kate Smith

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  Author: Kate Smith

• I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

  Author: Paul Simon

• My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

  Author: Paul Simon

• My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

  Author: Beverly Sills

• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

  Author: William Sherman

• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.

  Author: Mary Shelley

• You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

  Author: Anne Sexton

• Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

  Author: Andres Segovia

• I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, 'Hey, fatty!'

  Author: Jason Segel

• I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

  Author: Jon Secada

• The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

  Author: Charles Schulz

• Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

  Author: Charles Schulz

• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

  Author: Greta Scacchi

• Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

  Author: George Santayana

• Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

  Author: Mark Sanford

• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  Author: Katey Sagal

• A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

  Author: Meg Ryan

• It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

  Author: Lord Russell

• But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

  Author: Todd Rundgren

• I always want to give the victim a voice.

  Author: Ann Rule

• In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

  Author: David Rose

• The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

  Author: Bryan Robson

• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  Author: Abraham Robinson

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Author: Pat Riley

• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  Author: Pat Riley

• There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

  Author: Alan Rickman

• The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

  Author: Cliff Richard

• There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

  Author: Tony Randall

• Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

  Author: Jean Racine

• El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

  Author: Dan Quayle

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

  Author: Randy Quaid

• It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

  Author: Robert Purvis

• No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

  Author: Charley Pride

• I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

  Author: Alan Price

• I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

  Author: Lisa Presley

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  Author: Jack Prelutsky

• Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

  Author: Christopher Plummer

• The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Author: Madeleine Peyroux

• I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

  Author: Daniel Petrie

• It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

  Author: Thomas Perry

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

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

  Author: Luciano Pavarotti

• When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  Author: Walter Pater

• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Author: Ann Patchett

• The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

  Author: Arvo Part

• I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

  Author: Evan Parker

• Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

  Author: Anne Parillaud

• The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

  Author: Origen

• A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

  Author: Johnny Olson

• Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

  Author: Johnny Olson

• I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

  Author: Carroll O'Connor

• Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

  Author: Conor Oberst

• I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

  Author: Ernest Newman

• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  Author: Pablo Neruda

• Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

  Author: Alla Nazimova

• The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

  Author: Ednita Nazario

• You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

  Author: Steve Nash

• One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

  Author: Sarojini Naidu

• Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  Author: Samantha Mumba

• The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

  Author: Marc Morial

• In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• 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.

  Author: Esai Morales

• I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

  Author: Mary Moore

• I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

  Author: Vaughn Monroe

• I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

  Author: Bill Monroe

• That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

  Author: Meredith Monk

• I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

  Author: Gretchen Mol

• At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

  Author: Gabriela Mistral

• And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

  Author: Little Milton

• Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

  Author: John Milton

• The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

  Author: Czeslaw Milosz

• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Author: Henry Miller

• Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

  Author: Frank Miller

• Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

  Author: Duane Michals

• In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

  Author: Bob Metcalfe

• But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

  Author: James Merrill

• Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  Author: H. Mencken

• I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

  Author: John Mellencamp

• I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

  Author: Thia Megia

• Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

  Author: Cynthia McKinney

• I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

  Author: Jim McKay

• If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.

  Author: Barry McGuire

• Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

  Author: Phil McGraw

• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  Author: Ian McDiarmid

• It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

  Author: Catherine McCormack

• I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.

  Author: John McCloy

• Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

  Author: Giuseppe Mazzini

• You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

  Author: Kathy Mattea

• You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

  Author: Kathy Mattea

• The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

  Author: Johnny Mathis

• It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

  Author: Johnny Mathis

• When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

  Author: Andrea Martin

• Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

  Author: Jose Marti

• There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

  Author: Joe Mantegna

• I don't even think my voice is really good.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

  Author: John Major

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

  Author: Andie MacDowell

• I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

  Author: Jeanette MacDonald

• When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

  Author: Norman MacCaig

• Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

  Author: James MacArthur

• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.

  Author: Jacob Lusk

• The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

  Author: Brian Lumley

• Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

  Author: F. Lucas

• I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

  Author: Nancy Lopez

• The human voice is the organ of the soul.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

  Author: Huey Long

• I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

  Author: Julie London

• I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

  Author: Julie London

• I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

  Author: Lisa Loeb

• There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

  Author: John Lindsay

• My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

  Author: Wendy Liebman

• Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

  Author: Daniel Libeskind

• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  Author: John Lewis

• If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

  Author: Philip Levine

• I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

  Author: James Levine

• Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

  Author: Phil Lesh

• They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

  Author: Coco Lee

• My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

  Author: Linda Lavin

• When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

  Author: Steve Largent

• I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

  Author: Stefano Langone

• I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

  Author: Jessica Lange

• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

  Author: Anne Lamott

• I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

  Author: Alan Ladd

• The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

  Author: Steve Lacy

• 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.

  Author: Lactantius

• It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

  Author: Akshay Kumar

• Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

  Author: Maggie Kuhn

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