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Quotes About Voice

Had a hell of a dream about you last night," came in the cracked voice through the cigar smoke.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daisy chantonnait avec l'orchestre, un murmure voilé, cadencé, et elle donnait à chaque mot un sens qu'il n'avait jamais eu, qu'il n'aurait jamais plus. Quand la mélodie montait vers l'aigu, sa voix se brisait doucement, pour reprendre aussitôt sur un ton plus bas, un ton de contralto, et l'air se chargeait, à chaque variation, d'une exquise bouffée de chaleur humaine.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.… High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl.…
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elle a la voix pleine d'argent, dit-il soudain. C'était vrai. Je ne l'avais pas compris jusque-là. Pleine d'argent — d'où sa fascination, le charme envoûtant des modulations, ce cliquetis, ce frémissement de cymbales... Lointaine, en son palais de marbre, fille du Roi, princesse d'or...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Au moment précis où sa voix s'éteignait, sans plus chercher mon attention, ni vouloir me convaincre, j'ai su que rien de ce qu'elle avait dit n'était vrai.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all--and yet there's something in that voice of hers...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean - then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think that voice held him most with its fluctuating feverish warmth because it couldn't be over-dreamed.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it's perfectly useless to hope.
~ Fernando Pessoa
His voice was dull and tremulous, the voice of one who hopes for nothing, because all hope is vain.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Arroio, esse cantar, jovem e puro, Busca o oceano por achar; E a fala dos pinhais, marulho obscuro, É o som presente desse mar futuro, É a voz da terra ansiando pelo mar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it.
~ Matt Bomer
David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.
~ Jane Birkin
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
My favourite singer ever in the world is Ari Up from The Slits. Her voice is amazing to me. It's carefree, but it's also really amazing.
~ Shamir
The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.
~ Mel Giedroyc
I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.
~ Jorja Smith
I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.
~ Chris Colfer
You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.
~ Aly Michalka
I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.
~ Sasha Grey