Quotes About Voice

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I once heard someone say that it's no so much about finding your voice. It's about having the courage to use it.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

Finding your voice in an unequal power arrangement—especially when the more powerful person is shaming you—takes a great amount of courage.

Our challenge as adults is to develop a strong voice that is uniquely our own, a voice that reflects our deepest values and convictions. Once we are comfortable within that voice, we can bring it to our most important relationships.

When women equate requesting a behavioral change with trying to teach the proverbial pig to sing, we don't strengthen our voice. Instead, we get sucked in by the latest research findings about how male and female brains are different, so men can't really be expected to pick up their socks. It feels easier to give up and adapt to unfair circumstances, despite the enormous long-term toll of making such accommodations.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

He had one of those good country voices: part drunk, part hound dog, part angel.

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Hope will never be silent.

Vocal music is considered to be the highest, for it is natural; the effect produced by an instrument which is merely a machine cannot be compared with that of the human voice. However perfect strings may be, they cannot make the same impression on the listener as the voice which comes direct from the soul as breath, and has been brought to the surface through the medium of the mind and the vocal organs of the body.

The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere.

it was that voice. his voice. the voice that wrapped around you like a warm day.

His voice reminded her [Azalea] of rich, thick cream, the sort one could add to any recipe to make it taste better.

Can I step away from this digital maw? Will my voice still matter if no one can hear it?

The tender voice of new language is as the breaths of whispers carried on the light.

Sometimes the spirits speak for you and sometimes the spirits make you speak.

Her telephone voice was brisk and without any tone at all.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.

P]aper's just as permanent once you send it out into the world. It seems like it closes the story, settles on one ending eliminating infinite possibilities, fixes it in place, in voice, but no, it does the opposite. You write it down so others can read it, and then it can grow. You nail it to a moment so it can pass through time.

The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol , the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

And this, then, is the job of the searchers and the dreamers: to reach deeper and deeper into the dream. Peeling away one layer after another. Until we realize that the voice speaking our dreams comes from within us and from without at the same time.11 Until we see at last that the story is true. Not necessarily because it happened in a particular place at a particular time, but because it is within us. It always was. It issues from us. It is ours. The whole ancient hierarchy of meanings.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.