Quotes About Voices

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.