Voice Quotes - Page 27

• True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

  Claudio Magris

  Secret, Speak, Clandestine

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

  Antony Hegarty

  Mastery, Aliens, Talent

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• True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

  Oriana Fallaci

  True Power, Long, Arrogance

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• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

  Rumi

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

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• My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

  Dave Matthews

  Heart, Serious, My Heart

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• The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Nice, Color, Goal

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• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  Hank Azaria

  Children, Stupid, Silly

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• All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

  Edmund Spenser

  Love, Sweet, Given

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• I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

  Tracey Gold

  Girl, Growing Up, Years

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• I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

  Casey Kasem

  Cartoon, Would Be, Television

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• But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

  Thomas Perry

  Fun, Hero, Character

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• During these times immediately ahead, the world will need many trumpets to sound the clarion call. The world will need many voices to speak the words of truth and healing for which millions long. The world will need many hearts joined together in the work of the soul, and prepared to do the work of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  God, Heart, Healing

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Loss, Clouds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse”, p.59

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• The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Laughter, Wind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.61

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• Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

  Wendell Phillips

  Together, Goes On, Demand

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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• 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.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 2002.

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• The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Motivational, Hell, Go To Hell

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• What are these voices outside love's open door
  Make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?
  I'm learning to live without you now
  But I miss you sometimes
  The more I know, the less I understand
  All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again

  Don Henley

  Song, Doors, Missing

  Song: The Heart of the Matter

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• I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspiring, Moving, Mean

  "Meeting Miss Taylor" by Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Attention, Want

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• It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

  Jean Anouilh

  Tragedy, Complaining, World

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• My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mother, Children, Lovely Voice

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• Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Two, Together, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.41, Modern Library

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• Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Achievement, Instinct

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• The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Church, Sound

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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