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Quotes About Voice

Everyone has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I like being a girl. I just want to be the one who says what that means.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The voice. It doesn't just matter what you say. It matters who does the saying. It matters whose voice it is.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Cuvintele conteaz?. Asta a spus doamna Quenell de la bun început. Cuvintele conteaz?. Întreg semestrul am c?utat cuvintele cu care s? spunem ceea ce trebuia s? spunem. Ne c?ut?m propria noastr? voce.
~ Meg Wolitzer
She sang along with them, her voice coming out in a loud quaver. But it didn't matter that you quavered; it only mattered that you made yourself heard.
~ Meg Wolitzer
We each have only one voice, and the world is so loud. Sometimes I think that the quiet ones have figured out that the best way to get other people's attention is not to shout, but to whisper. Which makes everyone listen a little harder.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelings—of aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and drives are so fundamental to girlhood and to womanhood, and I love exploring them. And trying to give voice to them as best I can. I think women are always trying to figure out their own adolescence. We never stop.
~ Megan Abbott
It wasn't just her words, it was her way of putting them together, the voice that seemed to gain power with each one, so that my head had been filled with images so magically vibrant it was as if I had seen them with my own eyes. She changed the world into something fine. She made one believe.
~ Megan Chance
You've got the sexiest voice. You make everything you say sound like it tastes good coming out of your mouth.
~ Megan Hart
she suffered from an "impetuosity of feeling." The effort to "say everything in a breath" caused her only to "begin at the end, or dash into the middle" of her argument when she felt the pressure to defend herself. The same pressure "gives my voice a tone, which those around me mistake for anger with them; and thus I leave the impression of having a confused head & a bad temper.
~ Unknown
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When Ethel Merman belted out "You're the Top" even though Uncle Joe and I were two miles away in the cheap seats, it was thrilling but maybe a little too loud. What a voice! They said she could hold a note longer than the Chase National Bank.
~ Mel Brooks
And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.
~ Melina Marchetta
His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.
~ Melina Marchetta
Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.
~ Melina Marchetta
Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language.
~ Melina Marchetta
Her voice echoed and its volume took him by surprise. He walked to the rock's edge, wanting to listen to it until the last echo disappeared, wanting to capture it in his hands.
~ Melina Marchetta
His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.
~ Melina Marchetta
How can you fight the world with a quiver in your voice, Beatriss of the Flatlands?
~ Melina Marchetta
But Trevanion would not listen. "I travel south," he said, his voice heavy. "And I will do all I can, Finnikin, to convince you to travel with me rather than take a path that may destroy you." "If you travel south, I am already destroyed," Finnikin said.
~ Melina Marchetta
If no voice speaks up for us, may the stones of this city testify on our behalf, this city whose prosperity owes so much to the efforts of the Jews, this city where so many institutions attest to the communal spirit of the Jews, this city where relations between Jews and non-Jews have always been exceptionally close.
~ Unknown
The dangerous undertone that she'd heard in his voice earlier was nowhere to be heard now, but what was there instead—raw honesty—was even more tempting.
~ Melissa Marr
I am involved with 'Write Girl ' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
~ Melissa Rosenberg