Quotes About Voice

My voice has been likened to the mating call of the caribou.

Who speaks? It is her voice, in my head. I fear it will not stop until I stop. It talks to me as I haul myself along these cobbled streets, telling me things I do not want to hear. Sometimes I answer, protest aloud, demanding to be left in peace.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen

I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins

You've got to stop listening to that tiny hysterical voice inside and start listening to the messages your body's been sending for weeks now. The hysterical voice is exactly that. Hysterical. It's highly emotional. It doesn't know the facts, and it's preventing you from seeing and believing them.

I think it's easy to see with the existence of these forms, the intermixing of prose and poetry, that they are really two sides of the same coin and that one doesn't do well without something of the other. Prose falls flat on its face without incorporating the dance of poetry and poetry has no voice without the narrative touch of prose.

If I'm going to do this, I want to do it well. And I want people to acknowledge that. "It's all just a distraction," says the voice one night. It catches me off guard. I'd almost forgotten the voice. Is it speaking the truth? Is this all just a distraction? A pleasant diversion before the gruesome finale, what they call in opera the "Grand Guignol"? Just a distraction. But a good one.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but women are voicing a lot of the form's biggest hits. 'Serial,' the podcast that made podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

That is just a part of my personality, being the voice of reasoning, and it is kind of annoying being that person all the time, but pretty much what you see on 'Total Divas' is who we are as individuals.

We've been polarizing for different reasons. For one thing, my voice is very polarizing. It sits in this place that either appeals to people or really puts people off. I can understand that.

Shwetha Menon is my good friend and I have nothing against her. But, the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress has been given to her for Paleri Manickam' in which somebody else dubbed for her. I received only the second best actress award for my performance in Pazhassi Raja,' where I have dubbed in my own voice.

I've heard legends and maestros praise my voice. It's overwhelming. I'm a nobody who shouldn't be at the receiving end of the such comments, and I'm extremely humbled.

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

I'm not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay attention from time to time.

I get recognised on the phone because it's harder to cover up your voice than your head. You can put a hat on or something, but I can't do accents.

More and more, I realise I have a distinct voice, which I didn't realise! You know, it's just my voice. I had no idea. A lot of times, people will say now, 'I recognised you from your voice,' which is interesting to me.

I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowing my success. As I inherited his voice, it is in recognition of that heritage.

My nasal voice has given me recognition.