Voice Quotes - Page 101

I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.

You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. “They really know their stuff. . . .” “Oh, they only know flashy stuff that’s no real use to anyone,” said Hermione disparagingly. “No real use?” said Ron in a strained voice. “Hermione, they’ve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . .

Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

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

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.

Bill Blankschaen is an emerging new voice in Christian life.

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.