Quotes About Voice

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

You showed me that even the smallest of people can have the loudest of words." (Rachael Taylor, 2018).

When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to submit to your voice

Soundless echoes - no voice, Sadness doth keep thee at bay, Stagnation rises as ebb & flow, Nothing alters, Unless you choose to break away.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

God so commanded, and left that commandSole daughter of his voice; the rest, we liveLaw to ourselves, our reason is our law.

The angel ended, and in Adam's earSo charming left his voice that he awhileThought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'dTo hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days,On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues;In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round,And solitude.

Necvi?ený hlas má rozsah kolem dvou oktáv.

As the world's only remaining superpower, the United States can impose its will on nations, or peoples within those nations. America's voice is 'great', in large part, because of its great wealth and because the nation is the 'the hammer of the whole earth' (Jeremiah 50:23). Another aspect of its status as 'the great voice,' is America's use of its voice as the cultural and entertainment leader of the world.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

The myth of Rome's everlastingness had been given relentless voice in Virgil's Aeneid, only to shatter with the sack of Rome in 410.

It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.

No, sir," Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.

but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not.

La voce era secca e monocorde e gli usciva dalle labbra quasi immobili, senza espressione o intonazione, mentre le sue lunghe dita sottili si muovevano con grazia e decisione, come per restituire alle parole quella forma che la voce non riusciva a dargli.

The writer chooses details in accord with the narrative voice most fit to tell the story, sensing how much is needed and what might need to be cut.