Quotes About Voice

If he has been my father's enemy, I like him still less!" exclaimed the now really anxious girl. "Will you not speak to him, Major Heyward, that I may hear his tones? Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me avow my faith in the tones of the human voice!" J. Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

in that quiet gentle voice, as sweetly pure as the stab of an icicle.

The problem is that when I don't project my voice, the feedback is that I don't seem sufficiently tough. But when I do project it, the feedback is that I'm angry. I have a diagnosis, Nan had said. You're female

Throughout the meal, Windy's voice blew over them, smooth and steady. It didn't matter what he was saying.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Man is a column of blood, with a voice in it, he said. And when the voice is still, and he is only a column of blood, he is better.

Be braver in your body, or your luck will leave you. . . . Listen for the voice of water.

Nothing else, sir? came the neutral voice, like one in a dream.

Do you like singing? Miriam asked her. If it is good, she said. Paul, of course, coloured. You mean if it is high-class and trained? he said. I think a voice needs training before the singing is anything, she said. You might as well insist on having people's voices trained before you allowed them to talk, he replied. Really, people sing for their own pleasure, as a rule. And it may be for other people's discomfort.

Simply being in a context of awe leads to a "small self." We can quiet that nagging voice of the interfering neurotic simply by locating ourselves in contexts of more awe.

The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words

I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice

I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, flowing, sounds of the city, sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night.

Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!

Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong.

A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect, Terrible in beauty, age, and power, The genius of poets of old lands, As to me directing like flame its eyes, With finger pointing to many immortal songs, And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.

Friends were surprised that a sensuous and handsome man such as Einstein, who could have almost any woman fall for him, would find himself with a short and plain Serbian who had a limp and exuded an air of melancholy. "I would never be brave enough to marry a woman unless she were absolutely healthy," a fellow student said to him. Einstein replied, "But she has such a lovely voice.

His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.

There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.