Quotes About Voices

Ive always done accents and stupid voices. But I went to school in Hampstead, where most of my mates were Jewish, and Jewish North London humour is so clever that I never thought I was funny.

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

The gulls swept over Dover. They sailed out like flakes of the fog, and tacked back towards the hidden town, while the siren mourned with them: other ships replied, a whole wake lifted up their voices—for whose death?

To know that we are only angels weighed down by filth, free of guilt? The bacteria in our bellies are responsible for the farts which shame us, tiny monsters shitting in their billions all over our pure skin create the acid reek of our sweat. And Slade: when the inner voices tell us we're unworthy or instruct us to love and hate, despite our best instincts... are these incessant distracting thoughts our own? Or do we only hear the voice of the eternal germ screaming in our heads?

All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices...

He understood better now. The mass called the shots. If the mass could not understand, then nothing he did, or Augustine did, or the Taskforce, would much matter. And the mass quite clearly understood nothing. The voices drifting his direction spoke of outrage at a government that would slaughter children, voices angrily denouncing "morning-after genocide.

voices rose up everywhere above ripples of unfamiliar music

When people do marriage right, they don't complain so much, and so their voices are silenced by the rabble of promiscuous charlatans peddling their pathetic world view as 'progressive.'

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing

It's charity." Baba reluctantly lifted his eyes from the jumble of scrolls piled on a shadowed shelf. "What is?" "The liquor. The men meet their fates half giddy. They barely know what is happening. Didn't the Japanese do the same?" "They didn't have firing squads." My father couldn't keep the sneer out of his voice.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]

These attitudes, assumptions and prejudices are hard-wired into us: not into our brains (there is no neurological reason for us to hear low-pitched voices as more authoritative than high-pitched ones), but into our culture, our language and millennia of our history.

The heyday of spiritualism--with its seances and spirit communications zinging through the ether--coincided with the dawn of the electric age. The generation that so readily embraced spiritualism was the same generation that had been asked to accept such seeming witchery as electricity, telegraphy, radio waves, and telephonic communications--disembodied voices mysteriously travelling through space and emerging from a receiver hundreds of miles distant

should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery. "The sun rose; I heard the voices of men, and knew that it was impossible to return to my retreat during that day.

She did not listen to the voices of the men behind her. She did not know for how long the broken snatches of their struggle kept rolling past her—the sounds that nudged and prodded one another, trying to edge back and leave someone pushed forward — a struggle, not to assert one's own will, but to squeeze an assertion from some unwilling victim - a battle in which the decision was to be pronounced, not by the winner, but by the loser.

A culture is made or destroyed by its articulate voices.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.