Voice Quotes - Page 140

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

I feel sad that he's just a voice now.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.

There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.

Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

I want to utilize social media to elevate the consciousness of those people who feel like all they want from social media is to be famous. Like, you can actually be a voice. You can actually say something that's inspiring and not just make people feel like you need to buy things and be a certain way.

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.

Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.

Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, Come up hither?