Voice Quotes - Page 12

• There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Being Yourself, Use

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• 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.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Thinking, Texture

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• The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Art, Pride, Giving

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• Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

  Stephen Charnock

  Taken, Men, Conquer The World

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.678, Ravenio Books

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• I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live.  They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

  Daryl Stuermer

  Strong, Heart, Soul

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• I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

  Alfred Lunt

  Trying, Bumps, Furniture

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

  Alfred Lunt

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time. Amaryllis's voice is a spellbinding and unique blend of naivet and wisdom. A perfect melding of family saga, murder mystery and a meditation on faith, loyalty and love, this novel will both haunt and entertain you.

  Susan Wiggs

  Loyalty, Unique, Murder Mysteries

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• The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Singing, Cry, Harmonicas

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

  Zach Braff

  Actors, Blame, Wells

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• FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE

  Amit Abraham

  Fear, Persons, Conscience

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• Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

  Jessica Hart

  Love Is, Knowing, Feelings

  Jessica Hart (2012). “We'll Always Have Paris”, p.117, Harlequin

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• Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

  Denis Johnson

  Happy Times, People, Littles

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• In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.

  Gatewood Galbraith

  Wall, Party, Government

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• As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

  Gerald Durrell

  Fire, Tree, Forever

  Gerald Durrell (1953). “The Overloaded Ark”

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• How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .

  Max Nordau

  Clever, War, Government

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• So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.

  Robyn

  Powerful, Moving, Eye

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• As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”

  John C. Lilly

  Loud Voices, Order, Lsd

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• I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Race, Giving, Baptists

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

  Yusef Lateef

  Being Yourself, Challenges, Facts

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• The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

  Mo Yan

  Spiritual, Views, Giving

  Mo Yan (2013). “Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

  Mo Yan

  Use, Literature, May

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• You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Village, Way, News

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• The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Alternatives, Roles, Paper

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• The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.

  Sam Keen

  Sleep, Unique, Men

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