Quotes About Voice

People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying attention to how they sound. To our unconscious minds, however, voice is very important.

That's what independent filmmaking does: it gives the underdog a voice, a shot.

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

From what I've understood, it's an entirely different world, and it's a tough world to get your foot in the door, but I've always wanted to be a voice of a Disney character.

I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo some of that erasure?'

I actually tried replying to what I thought were some unfair comments on the Internet once or twice, and I never heard back. What seems to happen with some people is they're very much interested in voicing their own opinions, but not in having them challenged.

A person's voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Listen to your intuition. When you're at a crossroad, the little voice is always talking to you. You just have to pay attention.

In deep pain, the sacred voice must speak to survive.

It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can't shout

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

I have always heard the sacred voice. Now I know it is the voice of God.

If you don't listen to that gentle, yet persistent voice within, you betray yourself.

The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can't say them like I do.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice