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Quotes About Voice

I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.
~ Alice Hastings Bradley
The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.
~ Mira Nair
Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite artist when I was 12.
~ Lights
I can sing as low as Toni Braxton and as high as Mariah Carey.
~ Gabby Barrett
Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!" Sophie snorted.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
followed the thread of his voice in the air.
~ Diane Setterfield
Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.
~ Dinty W. Moore
But her voice sounded wistful. It is one of her theories that a woman must never be jealous, never try to hold man against his will; but I could tell that she hadn't enjoyed seeing someone else bring father to life.
~ Dodie Smith
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
~ Don DeLillo
She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear. Eric Packer about Vija Kinski
~ Don DeLillo
I want to put your voice back inside your body, where it belongs.
~ Don DeLillo
This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.
~ Don DeLillo
Her tiny piping voice bounced down to be from a hollow ball in geosynchronous orbit.
~ Don DeLillo
High-impact 21st century fiction is built on unique voices, uncommon characters, and tales that can only be told by a particular author. They're sui generis.
~ Donald Maass
So I wrote. I wrote as though God thought my voice mattered. I wrote because I believed a human story was beautiful, no matter how small the human was. I wrote because I didn't make myself, God did. And I wrote like he'd invited me to share my true "self" with the world.
~ Donald Miller
Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.
~ Donald Miller
His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.
~ Donna Andrews
The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes I dreamed of always began like this. I could lose myself forever in that singular little face, in the pessimism of her beautiful mouth. When I imagined these phrases cast in her voice, they were almost intolerably sweet; now, sitting right beside her, it was unthinkable that I should voice them myself.
~ Donna Tartt
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
~ J. William Fulbright
Actually," Coursey lowered his voice an octave, "we've been informed by Homeland Security that three members of a subversive Brazilian band went through Customs at O'Hare Airport eleven days ago.
~ J.A. Konrath
we have allowed secular thinkers to frame the debate, and the Christian voice has been muffled at best.
~ J.P. Moreland
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
~ Unknown
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country
~ Unknown