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Quotes About Voice

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
~ Mira Nair
I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.
~ Dylan Penn
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
~ Brian Lumley
One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.
~ John Dickerson
My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.
~ Maxine Waters
Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.
~ Jeff Lindsay
What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'
~ Ross Kemp
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
~ Tariq Ali
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.
~ Robert Creeley
When I speak, I speaks.
~ Robert Creeley
A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That on volcano's Vomit rise A Stone of ruin From burn to chill Like black moonrise Her voice fell still...
~ Robert Fanney
I shall set forth for somewhere,I shall make the reckless choiceSome say when they are in voiceAnd tossing so as to scareThe white clouds over them on,I shall have less to say,But I shall be gone.
~ Robert Frost
Now the sound of her voice, and her laughter, acted on him as it usually did, by making everything seem fractionally less awful.
~ Robert Galbraith
Be not dishearten'd—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, "Over the Carnage Rose a Prophetic Voice
~ Robert Goolrick
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear His voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice! O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, And give Him the glory, great things He has done.
~ Robert J. Morgan
My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD .
~ Robert J. Morgan
Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice. – Deuteronomy 26:7
~ Robert J. Morgan
The communication is made only by 7% from the verbal part, the pure content, the remaining 93% is divided between non-verbal (55%), that is the way we gesture and the postures that we assume in front of a person during the communication and para-verbal (38%), ie the way in which we use the voice.
~ Robert James
He noticed his voice shook a little, and he didn't like it. American males have their standards, after all.
~ Robert James Waller
Compared by one commentator to "the death rattle of a seagull," Costello's voice was later said to have provided the model for Marlon Brando's memorable performance in The Godfather.
~ Robert Lacey
She had hoped, in vain, that her voice would not falter. When she tried to reach out to him, he pulled away, still holding on to the tiller with dead-white fingers. "No, no," he said, drawing back in horror. "Don't touch me." His eyes were wild, the stubble on his pale young cheeks flecked
~ Robert Masello
Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die though, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa
~ Robert W. Chambers
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.
~ Robin McKinley
A crying child's voice will carry half across England. Is there still no news?
~ Robin McKinley