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Quotes About Voice

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
~ William Shakespeare
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
~ William Shakespeare
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
~ William Shakespeare
I have no words. My voice is in my sword.
~ William Shakespeare
In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My voice breaks, becomes shrill; I sweat. I get a sloppy half-grin on my face. Worse, my mind wanders and then takes flight while the logic I possess in fair measure under more placid circumstances abandons my brain like an ungrateful urchin.
~ William Styron
Somehow, even the slightest words and phrases of Sappho yield her voice.
~ Unknown
If there were any wild hogs around, he could scare the daylights out of them with his deep voice.
~ Wilson Rawls
The human voice vibrates naturally - but in such a way - to such a degree that it all sounds beautiful - it is the nature of the voice. We imitate such effects not only on wind instruments, but also with violins - even on clavier - but as soon as you go beyond the natural limits, it no longer sounds beautiful - because it is contrary to nature.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Suddenly, he heard a horrible sound and realized it was his own voice.
~ Woody Allen
Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since.
~ Woody Guthrie
The guttural eruptions and long flowing vowels rolled just beneath my comprehension like a beautiful brook. I gazed into this brook for long spells of time. It was not wide, just one man's voice, but it was as deep as the universe.
~ Yann Martel
Look north. Achilles on the rampart by the ditch: He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath; And from the bottom of his heart emits So long and loud and terrible a scream, The icy scabs at either end of earth Winced in their sleep; and in the heads that fought It seemed as if, and through his voice alone, The whole world's woe could be abandoned to the sky. An in that instant all the fighting glassed.
~ Unknown
And Patroclus, Shaking the voice out of his body, says: 'Big mouth. Remember it took three of you to kill me. A god, a boy, and, last and least, a prince. I can hear Death pronounce my name, and yet Somehow it sounds like Hector. And as I close my eyes I see Achilles' face With Death's voice coming out of it.' Saying these things Patroclus died. And as his soul went through the sand Hector withdrew his spear and said: 'Perhaps.
~ Unknown
Tell them I Am, Jehovah saidTo Moses; while earth heard in dread,And smitten to the heart,At once above, beneath, around,All nature, without voice or sound,Replied, O Lord, Thou art.
~ Christopher Smart
For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.
~ Christopher Smart
Don't ever feel reluctant to make contributions,they might have said it all,but they can't say it exactly the way you would.
~ Unknown
How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?' 'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?' 'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Eliza's voice snapped like a freshly washed sheet hung to dry in a brisk wind.
~ Unknown
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices on behalf of our ideals.
~ Clara Zetkin
For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.
~ Clarice Lispector
Porque há o direito ao grito. Então eu grito.
~ Clarice Lispector
I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.
~ Clarice Lispector
The eroticism inherent in living things is scattered through the air, in the sea, in the plants, in us, scattered in the vehemence of my voice, I'm writing you with my voice...
~ Clarice Lispector