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Quotes About Voices

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
~ Billy West
I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'
~ Fred Durst
I started to hallucinate and hear voices as clear as crystal. I heard my family in a casual familial conversation I heard Koran readings in a heavenly voice. I heard music from my country. Later on the guards used these hallucinations and started talking with funny voices through the plumbing, encouraging me to hurt the guard and plot an escape.
~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Tussen de vele stemmen van mensen is jouw stem de enige die menselijk is die weet van het verdriet dat langzaam in de bomen groeit gevoed door de aarde tot ze oud worden sterven aan de rand van wilde of onzindelijke tuinen.
~ Remco Campert
Suenan las voces de los estudiantes que se quejan, como debe ser, de todos los políticos habidos y por haber
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Dorner leaned back in his chair, imagining what might have happened if he hadn't injected himself. The limbo of sleep, dark and secret— Drowning in the sea of voices. Not waking, not fighting. Letting them storm him without resisting.
~ Rich Shapero
The New Testament is not a simple, homogeneous body of doctrine. It is, rather, a chorus of diverse voices. These voices differ not only in pacing and intonation but also in the material content of their messages. No matter how devoutly we might wish it otherwise, we cannot hear these texts as a chorus speaking in unison.
~ Richard B. Hays
A voice is the vehicle by which a word is made known. Jesus is the eternal Word, but He enters into our world in part through our voices.
~ Richard D. Phillips
In dignity and harmony, in rich beauty rose their voices now employed in noble purpose. Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.
~ Richard Llewellyn
But just for a moment they were caught in the grip of this place. They felt the weight of its history, and mystery. So did I. The paper was loose and peeling on the walls. I wondered how many layers you'd have to scrape away until you came to the time when these old people were young. If they ever were. I wondered how quiet you'd have to be to hear the voices of those times.
~ Richard Peck
voices or cell phone—choose your schizophrenia.
~ Richard Powers
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
~ Richard Powers
Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language.
~ Richard Rodriguez
She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came to her from the darkness and the sky above and the stars. They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.
~ Kate Chopin
Firstly, we must widen our common literary world to include many more voices from beyond our comfort zones of the elite first-world cultures.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.
~ Kelley Armstrong
And sometimes, as you sing, you cannot help feeling that the unheard echoes and tunes forgotten are echoes of other voices and tunes of other singers...in that kind of world.
~ Ken Kesey
First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!
~ Pope Francis
I thank you for your voices, thank you,Your most sweet voices.
~ William Shakespeare
I Have a Witness" Sometimes a center the soul can recognize will speak from anywhere , inside a mountain, or from a whirlwind ... The world can take, the soul restores. A million wrong voices proclaim One light lives forever.
~ William Stafford
But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
~ William Wordsworth
Two voices are there: one is of the sea,One of the mountains; each a mighty voice.
~ William Wordsworth
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
~ David Walliams
I have this instinct for knowing when a defence is going to relax, or when a defender will make a mistake,' he once said. 'Something inside me says, Gerd, go this way; Gerd, go that. I don't know what it is.' A killer who claimed to hear voices. Serial goalscorer.
~ David Winner