Quotes About Voice

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

the backyard's tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother's voice. But on this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he hesitated. He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and—coming from far away—

Then he heard a familiar voice. That's got 'em! Wonderfull spell, Fireball-- Fizban! Tanis groaned.

Adesso prentiti un po' di sonno, disse il nano, con quella che Tas definiva la Voce di Suo Nonno.

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

Ils devraient toujours lire le livre à voix haute et claire, se tenir de toutes leurs forces exempts de toute mémoire de l'avoir jamais lu, dans la conviction de n'en connaître rien, et cela chaque soir.

Écrire, c'est hurler sans bruit.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Les rencontres nous signent. Nous devenons des livres d'or. Nous apprenons à parler des mots donnés par nos aimés. Quand il la revoit, sa voix avait des plis comme la soie.

She was dizzy with her own feelings, her own voice. She was flying around on a carnival machine that would not stop, she could not make it stop and she screamed and screamed.

Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood.

It is like a voice heard from another room, singing for the pleasure of the song, and then you know it, too, and through you it moves by accident and necessity down generations. Then, why singing? Why pleasure in it? And why the blessing of the moment when another voice is heard, dreaming to itself?

I write a book because there is a voice in my mind, a burden of narrative. Of course I am pleased that these voices interest other people, too. When I write I am always aware that perception is beautiful, and that to be human is a very high and very complicated privilege. I want my fiction to be true, and to me these are very essential truths.

In The Invention of Literature (1999), the classical scholar Florence Dupont reminds us that many of the greatest works of human imagination were created to be performed, to be heard. Before the printing press and mass literacy, the written versions existed as blueprints or records of performances, recitals, speeches, songs, and other forms of oral communication. Voicing was an art of living creators, and the voice of the storyteller was

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.