Quotes About Voice

She even tried to teach us the difference between active voice—"I snarfed the Oreos"—and passive voice—"The Oreos got snarfed.

You can't speak up for your right to be silent, that's letting the bad guys win.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Melinda, Mr. Freeman says. Snow filters into the car and melts on the dashboard. You're a good kid. I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it. I close the door.

Laurie Halse Anderson

when people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time

And as I lay there listening, with the sun filtering across me, I thought this was how it should always be. To be charmed from sleep by a voice like this, eased softly back into life, rather than by the customary brutalities of shouts, knocking, and alarm-bells like blows on the head. The borders of consciousness are anxious enough, raw and desperate places; we shouldn't be dragged across them like struggling thieves as if sleep was a felony.

and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.

she sounded like Lizbeth Scott in those Bogart movies. I've always wished I had a voice

With all its imperfections lying heavy on its head, I can't help being attached to it because in the writing of it I first heard the sound of my own voice, lame and halting perhaps, but nevertheless my very own. This is an experience no artist ever forgets —the birth cry of a newly born baby of letters, the genuine article.

Nature had combined in him the features of a degenerate pope and the torpor of a crocodile, and to these had added a voice of unconscionable harshness.

Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!

I feel sad that he's just a voice now.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

Do you love me?" His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool's chance at that

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

The voice on the other end said, "Lord Mollusk, we've lost China." "Define lost." "It's not there anymore, sir." "Well, that's no good, is it?" I said. "No, sir. We thought you should know." "Yes, I'll look into it. Mollusk out.