Quotes About Voice

In all my life," Ernestino said, "I have never heard a voice like that. God has touched you, Signore. But sing while you can, because it won't be long before those high notes leave you forever.

He can see us, said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently.

Fool, you never caused it!" said the voice. "Fool, you think you caused that to happen to us? You never caused anything. Fool, you couldn't make a curse to save your soul!

He heard Julien's voice, with the fancy French accent illuminating the letters, just as surely as the old monks had illuminated letters when they painted them bright red or gold and decorated them with tiny figures and leaves.

Loneliness and solitude have imprinted her most strangely on my mind. I see her. I hear her voice.

Me maravillaba su habitual forma de expresarse, el tono melodioso de su voz y el modo en que sus palabras parecían apenas perturbar el aire.

When I spoke of my vote, I was speaking of a symbolic voice rather than a literal one.

It was the first time I'd heard her voice, and I saw the deliberate brave calm of her blanched face, the wind making her eyes tear, though she herself remained staunch.

I marveled at his customary manner of speaking, the melting quality of his voice and the way his words seemed barely to disturb the air.

Marius," she said in cultured and perfect Latin, her voice as lovely as her face, "you read my walls and my floor as if they were a book." "Forgive me," I said. "But when a room is so exquisitely decorated, it seems the polite thing to do.

faculty that DeeDee had a voice just like Yma

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance...

And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.

If is a word that can never be said too loudly

Anyway, Lindsey and all his friends—Warren Zevon, right?—are in a circle. They smoked hash for a month, and I don't smoke because of my voice. And when you don't smoke there's something that makes you really dislike other people smoking. I'd come in every day and have to step over these bodies. Me, I've just been cleaning. I'm tired. And I'm pickin' up their legs and cleaning under them and emptying out the ashtrays.

wisps. His voice rose higher in his excitement. 'And don't look so sceptical.

What had gone completely was the memory of what made her human, her ways and her thoughts. The withholding of these details was like a torment. When he tried to bring her back to mind, he could not hear the voice, he could not imagine one aspect of her, the way she looked or talked, the expressions of her face, her walk, her gestures. It was as though she were dead and he bore the responsibility for killing her.

Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad of interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.   —David Mamet

It's more about a five- or ten- or fifteen-year process where you start finding your voice, and finally you begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

Everyone has a little voice inside of their head that's angry and afraid.

That voice is the resistance your lizard brain and it wants you to be average (and safe)

She was Ophelia—tragic, bereft Ophelia—and had practiced singing her mad, sad lines until her voice had gone hoarse and she'd had to rest it for two days just to speak again without a rasp.

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.