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Quotes About Voices

Far too often, local voices have been overlooked when it comes to planning transportation projects.
~ Alex Padilla
In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
Unas voces que se elevaron hasta allá arriba como si fueran pájaros invisibles.
~ Stefan Zweig
We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."
~ Echo Bodine
Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case.
~ Michael Connelly
Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of radiance. When she's crossed over to this realm of relentless brilliance, the voices start.
~ Michael Cunningham
automated voices and the bells from the row of testing machines in the back. The walls were white cinder block, the floors speckled linoleum. At the front desk were four large black ladies. Leigh Anne handed all the documents over to one of them, who took one look at them and said in a slow drawl, "Uh-uh. This school
~ Michael Lewis
The loudest and most authoritative voices in the debate over psychedelics in the 1960s were precisely the people who knew the least about them.
~ Michael Pollan
I love female musicians, female singers.
~ Perez Hilton
Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.
~ Gary Moore
I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.
~ Li Bingbing
I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.
~ Alex Winston
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
~ Khalil Gibran
The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.
~ Leonard Downie, Jr.
Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
~ Bob Dylan
Beston writes that animals "are not brethren, they are not underlings" but beings "gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear." They are, he writes, "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
~ Sy Montgomery
I summoned my little chorus of voices. Doesn't your work interest you, Esther? You know, Esther, you've got the perfect setup of a true neurotic. You'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere live that, you'll never get anywhere like that.
~ Sylvia Plath
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
~ T. S. Eliot
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
~ T. S. Eliot
And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
~ T. S. Eliot
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. T.S. Eliot The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
~ T. S. Eliot
Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
~ T.S. Eliot
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
~ Tamora Pierce
Because once upon a time, we grew up on stories and the voices in which they were told. We need words to hold us and the world to behold us for us to truly know our own souls.
~ Taylor Mali