Quotes About Voice

I still think that it's time for something that reflects the American people.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.

Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

Life had been so very quiet since. And so very dull, a deep inner voice added.

Ah, said a voice from close by. Some fellow mortals . . . What a relief! I thought I was doomed to wander about the forest for the rest of my days. I have very little sense of direction, I'm afraid.

When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No more fights. You get that mad again, shoot the bastard. Promise me.

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Zora Neale Hurston

Now try writing some pages to serve as later notes. Because you're not yet sure of voice or anything else, you're free from the need to squash in all manner of background information, explaining what year it is, etc. That stuff will just get you back in your head and drive you nuts. You're free to write as if all that stuff is in the reader's head already. It will be, by the time you get to this part of the book. You

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

The goal of a voice is to speak not with objective authority but with subjective curiosity.

Students love trying to imitate Nabokov, which teaches them a lot—mostly about why not to imitate somebody wired so differently from yourself. Nabokov wannabes don't sound just like turds, but like pretentious turds. The writer's best voice will grow from embracing her own "you-ness"—which I call talent, and which is best expressed in voice. Which

personal experience has the possibility to transform both the tellers of it and the listeners to it. Just as the novel form once took up experiences of urban industrialized society that weren't being addressed in sermons or epistles or epic poems, so memoir—with its single, intensely personal voice—wrestles with family issues in a way readers of late find compelling.

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man's] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. William Faulkner

the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own

Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be musical inside yourself.