Quotes About Voice

you. Once again, my new novel The Girl Who Stayed is something different for me, although with the same voice my readers have come to anticipate. I believe that people are pretty much the same, regardless of era, physical space, or culture, and this is the essence of my storytelling. I strive for characters you will relate to, no matter where or when they may have lived. The Girl Who Stayed is also a book of the heart and I couldn't be more thrilled to see

Prayer is the voice of longing; it reaches outwards and inwards to unearth our ancient belonging.

Celestial isn't the kind of singer you would want at your wedding. While her mother is a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto. Even when she was a little girl, her voice was like the middle of the night. When she gives a song, it isn't entertaining; rather, it sounds like she is telling secrets that are not hers to reveal.

I was at the BP station, filling up my daddy's Chrysler with gas, when I finally heard what I think was my mama's voice in my ear. Any fool can up and go. Whenever she started saying what "any fool" could do, she followed up with how a "real man" would handle the problem

While her mother was a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto. Even when she was a little girl, her voice was like the middle of the night.

Bernadette never learned that a restrained voice meant dignity and control of strong feeling or good manners, especially in women. She thought such a voice was servile, fit only for servants, and that the possessor was timid, humble, inferior, and worthy only of abuse and peremptory correction.

When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.

For me, thinking typically meant speaking in an internal voice; as we say in the trade, my thoughts were phonologically coded.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

Support for charities takes many forms. Some people give their money, some their spare time. I give my name and my voice. We give what we can to make a difference to the people and issues that matter to us. But what's most important, especially for celebrities, is giving our genuine commitment.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.

It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

Boxing is for the poor man. A lot of people don't know what's going on, but I've been able to see it first-hand, and if I can speak out on the behalf of fighters going through problems, I will, because... it's important to create awareness. Everyone should speak up. Because if people are aware, maybe there can be change.

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.