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Quotes About Voice

The good thing about carrying on a conversation with a phantom voice projected by some fragment of your shattered subconscious is, you can brush your teeth at the same time.
~ Eddie Robson
Baudelaire had supper at the table next to ours. He was without a cravat, his shirt open at the neck and his head shaved, just as if he were to be guillotined. A single affectation: his little hands washed and cared for, the nails kept scrupulously clean. The face of a maniac, a voice that cuts like a knife, and a precise elocution that tries to copy Saint-Just and succeeds.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not speak however silently, But my hushed voice will answer Thee
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Liberty is the right to silence.
~ Anonymous
The voice of the wild goose,caught by the bait, cries out.Love of you holds me back,and I can't loosen it at all….I did not set my traps today;love of you has thus entrapped me.
~ Anonymous
The united voice of all His Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America—liberty and property, and no stamps.
~ Anonymous
The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
~ Anonymous
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.
~ Anonymous
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
~ Anonymous
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
~ Anonymous
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
~ Anonymous
All with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
~ Anonymous
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
~ Anonymous
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
~ Anonymous
And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
~ Anonymous
If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
~ Anonymous
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
~ Anonymous
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
~ Anonymous
page forty-four, Fire Down Below," he announced in a voice which suggested that he was trying to broadcast to the nation without using a microphone.
~ Anthony Buckeridge
They can see the character, standing before them. The voice became iconic in its own right. Parents often ask me to do it for their children, who don't quite believe them. After all, any old man can claim to be the guy inside the gold suit and kids are rightly skeptical. 'Hello, I am See-Threepio, human-cyborg relations.' Then I see the magic. I watch as the sound enters their ears, it reaches their brain, it gets processed in moments. And suddenly. Smiles of recognition - and love.
~ Anthony Daniels
Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.
~ Anthony Doerr
The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light.
~ Anthony Doerr
String and spit and wire and a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams.
~ Anthony Doerr