Voice Quotes - Page 9

• I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

  Lynda Barry

  Song, Mirrors, White

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• The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Meaningful, Community, Listening

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• I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

  Sasha Grey

  Thinking, Female, Sexuality

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• The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.

  Sam Amidon

  Kids, Boys, Lovely Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  Adele

  Paris, Singing, Here And There

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• LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Kindness, Inspiration, Heart

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• We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang

  James Patterson

  Boys, People, Like You

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.303, Hachette UK

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• I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

  Rob Sheffield

  Language, Whole

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.156, Crown Archetype

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• Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Joy, Break Out

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• Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Warts, Said

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• I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Problem, Heard

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• I would want to be known as a great singer; that the records I've made and the performances that I've done to be remembered. But the voice is the most important thing. The showmanship goes along with it. But I want to be remembered for my vocal ability.

  Tom Jones

  Important, Done, Records

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• I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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• I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Listening, Different

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

  Denis Johnson

  Happy Times, People, Littles

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• So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.

  Robyn

  Powerful, Moving, Eye

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• The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

  Mo Yan

  Spiritual, Views, Giving

  Mo Yan (2013). “Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .

  Max Nordau

  Clever, War, Government

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• I was never afraid to step out and make a decision. It might have been the wrong decision. I'm not afraid to tell somebody if I think they're wrong, as long as I know that I'm right. I would always try to make sure that I was right and then I'd voice my opinion.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Thinking, Long, Decision

  "A Portrait of Valor". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 5, 2001.

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• As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”

  John C. Lilly

  Loud Voices, Order, Lsd

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• I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Race, Giving, Baptists

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

  Mo Yan

  Use, Literature, May

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