Voice Quotes - Page 28

• If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.

  Michael Basman

  Sports, Games, Chess

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• If you truly care about animal rights and have a passion for it, take some action. Whether it's hands-on or political, just go for it. No matter what path you choose in life or what you decide to do, you can use your voice to educate other people and help the cause.

  Mac Danzig

  Passion, Animal, Rights

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• Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

  Sophie Swetchine

  Confused, Insanity, Depth

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• The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.

  Iccho Itoh

  Nuclear Disarmament, People, Survivor

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• Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Children, Kids

  "Jennifer Aniston: My Friends & Partner Are My Family". "Good Morning America" Interview, people.com. August 07, 2013.

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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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• You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.

  Sonia Friedman

  Chance

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• A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.

  Vera Caspary

  Eye, Men, Tone

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• Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

  Jane Rule

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

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• Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

  Russell Brand

  Fun, Animal, Vegetarian

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• This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

  Kanye West

  Running, Cutting, People

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• At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

  Sick, Four, Indiana

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• I may not have the type of voice you like, but I can sing. You can’t take that away from me, ‘cause singing is a gift from God, and when people say I can’t sing, it’s kind of like insulting God.

  Fergie

  People, Insulting, Singing

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• He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Nibbling, Done, Speak

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

  Pablo Casals

  Creating, Play, Suggestions

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• The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

  Sammy Hagar

  Heart, Singing, Passionate

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• Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk

  G-Dragon

  Sound, Huskies, Masculine

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• I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components

  Valentino Rossi

  Names, Giving, Soul

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• Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The.PowerBook.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Book, Passion, Giving

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• There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Doing Nothing, Saying Nothing, Needed

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• What an amazing voice! Sally Barris has an excruciatingly beautiful voice.

  Pierce Pettis

  Beautiful, Beautiful Voice

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• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

  Sam Keen

  Sex, Nice, Struggle

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• You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

  Shane Koyczan

  Country, Cities, Choices

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• One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Powerful, Dark, Unique

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Passive Voice, Arrows

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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