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Quotes About Voice

The minority is always right.
~ Henrik Ibsen
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy...The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.
~ Henry Edward Manning
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything
~ Henry Miller
Much information important for strategy making never does become hard fact. The expression on a customer's face, the mood in the factory, the tone of voice of a government official, all of this can be information for the manager but not for the formal system.
~ Henry Mintzberg
Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm twenty-three and I sound like I'm fifty-five.
~ Henry Rollins
Prayer isThe world in tune,A spirit-voice,And vocal joys,Whose echo is heaven's bliss.O let me climbWhen I lie down!
~ Henry Vaughan
Yes indeed, of the essence... from the mouth of the Tsar!" came the sobbing voice of Count Rostov from the back. He hadn't heard a word, but in his own way he seemed to understand.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.
~ Leon Lessinger
It's a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart's ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.
~ Leonard Cohen
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
~ Leonard Cohen
I am this thing that needs to sing.
~ Leonard Cohen
and once again I am a singer in the lower choirs, born fifty years ago to raise my voice this high, and no higher.
~ Leonard Cohen
Feb. 1, 1965 Storm late at night, heavy rain, a thunderous racket, the windows shaking. I heard my name called. A woman's voice in hell pleading with me to join her.
~ Leonard Michaels
Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Why did he not cry? He must have forgotten even that he had a voice.
~ Leonid Andreyev
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
~ Leontyne Price
Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.
~ lerner harriet ii
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
~ Leroy Brownlow
What is reasonable for you to expect is that no matter how idiosyncratic or "different" your own, particular voice may be, there will be a number of readers who will like it. Who will be drawn to the personality on the page.
~ Les Edgerton
A boy who had learned to survive by silencing his voice had suddenly been given one, but was it his own voice he had been given, or the voice of God? Or was the voice of God within him, part of him? Had divine words really been planted inside him, or had his own words been an expression of the divine? Where did man end and God begin? What was this boundary so powerfully and briefly broken?
~ Lesley Hazleton
Yet the greater the turmoil inside him, the more the revelations responded to it. It was as though the Quranic voice was able to see deep inside him and address questions he was barely aware he was asking.
~ Lesley Hazleton
voice shook with angry emotion, her slim body suddenly seeming too fragile to handle the weight that had been dumped on it. "I can't
~ Leslie A. Kelly
The shades of gender in her voice were intricate, like mine.
~ Leslie Feinberg