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Quotes About Voice

And suddenly something unforgettable occurred: suddenly she felt a desire to go to him and hear his voice, his words. If he spoke to her in a soft, deep voice her soul would take courage and rise to the surface of her body, and she would burst our crying. She would put her arms around him the way she had put her arms around the chestnut tree's thick trunk in her dream.
~ Milan Kundera
Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.
~ Milan Kundera
But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment
~ Milan Kundera
and so the man who called to her was simultaneously a stranger and a member of the secret brotherhood. He called to her in a kind voice, and Tereza felt her soul rushing up to the surface through her blood vessels.
~ Milan Kundera
Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.
~ Milan Kundera
Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
~ Milan Kundera
Plus vaste est le temps que nous avons laissé derrière nous, plus irrésistible est la voix qui nous invite au retour
~ Milan Kundera
No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera
All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind. But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment.
~ Milan Kundera
Quanto mais vasto é o tempo que deixámos para trás de nós, mais irresistivel é a voz que nos convida ao regresso.
~ Milan Kundera
A vertigem não é o medo de cair, é outra coisa. É a voz do vazio embaixo de nós, que nos atrai e nos envolve, é o desejo da queda do qual logo nos defendemos aterrorizados.
~ Milan Kundera
Chantal se siente a salvo, porque la voz de Jean-Marc es la voz del amor, la voz cuya existencia había olvidado en aquellos momentos de desconcierto, la voz del amor que la acaricia y la relaja, pero para la que todavía no está preparada; como si esa voz llegara de lejos, de demasiado lejos; tendrá que escucharla aún durante bastante tiempo para creer en ella.
~ Milan Kundera
Poetry never plays a more important role than it does during revolutionary periods; poetry gave the revolution its voice and in return the revolution liberated poetry from isolation; the poet now knows he is being heard by the people, especially young people; for youth, poetry and revolution are one and the same.
~ Milan Kundera
All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of a hunting horn coming from the depths of distant forests. There were paths in those forests...
~ Milan Kundera
Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
~ Paulo Coelho
On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
~ Philip Larkin
I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
~ Sara Paretsky
I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.
~ Stan Lee
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
~ Steve Toltz
I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.
~ Wes Borland
Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.
~ William Wordsworth
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
~ Yanni