Quotes About Voice

The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.

hardest time: our voice will not be our own. The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn.

The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn.

And in a minute the loudest Yankee voice I ever heard in my life yells out, OE'm Pop-OE the Sailor-r-r-r Ma-a-an! and then somebody jumps up and down in the upstairs hall. In another second the house would of fallen down.

It's always the voice of God they try to silence first.

see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.

Jackson brushed the sweep of his gaze along the flat horizon, and thought that he liked her voice. It was musical, soothing as the sound of Irish.

The voice has been swiftly stilled. Only the echoes and the memory remain; but they will linger.

No voice, no brains; just break up a meeting that they have not the wit to address. The electors will know how to deal with a party whose only weapon is idiotic clamour.'143

Proprio in questo consiste il ruolo della poesia, Ciri. Parlare di ciò di cui gli altri tacciono.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit.

If you don't tell your stories, who will?

You are going to have to scream. Can you do that?" Lucy's eyes lit up. "Oh, yes. I can scream.

The round-faced nun turned her twinkling eyes to Silas and said in a soft lilting voice, "He's quite a lad, your boy, isn't he? He knows what he wants, and isn't afraid of going out to get it.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

She nodded back, and thought how limited her means of expression had become: nodding to the pianist or to Mme de Bonneuil, listening to Mrs Pursey, using a disguised voice in the novel she was writing and, with all of this, waiting for a voice that remained silent, hearing very little that meant anything to her at all. The dread implications of this condition made her blink her eyes and vow to be brave, to do better, not to give way. But it was not easy.

The room rang with her voice, then with silence. In the shaded darkness, silence had the quality of a looming dragon. It seemed to roar and the roar to reverberate, to dominate. To escape from it would require a burst of recklessness, even cruelty.

was as if Pee-wee Herman had opened his mouth to speak and James Earl Jones's voice had come out.

People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard.

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

We must allow people to agitate for whatever they want. They must be allowed to campaign for their views.