Voice Quotes - Page 19

• You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

  Ryan Ross

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The.PowerBook.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Book, Passion, Giving

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• There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Doing Nothing, Saying Nothing, Needed

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• There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

  Simon Blackburn

  Integrity, Doe, Needs

  Simon Blackburn (2014). “Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love”, p.173, Princeton University Press

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• They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships.
  The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.

  John Ralston Saul

  Children, Men, Law

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• Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.

  David Weinberger

  Thinking, Talking, Opposites

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• What an amazing voice! Sally Barris has an excruciatingly beautiful voice.

  Pierce Pettis

  Beautiful, Beautiful Voice

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• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

  Sam Keen

  Sex, Nice, Struggle

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• My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well.

  Sarah Wylie

  Heart, Hopeful, Cages

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• You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

  Shane Koyczan

  Country, Cities, Choices

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• One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Powerful, Dark, Unique

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• Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

  Alane Ferguson

  Reading, Adventure, Stories

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• I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

  Jerry Harrison

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Passive Voice, Arrows

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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• May you hear the voice of wisdom.
  Listening, may you act with trust.

  Charlene Costanzo

  Listening, May

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• It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life and instead represents the views of the ordinary people who are our readers and who don't have a voice in today's political landscape and are too often ignored by today's ruling elite.

  Paul Dacre

  Views, People, Political

  "Why is the left obsessed by the Daily Mail?". www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2013.

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• I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal sounds, forgotten instruments like the guimbri... The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before. This album is about introducing those sounds into modern, Western life.

  Marie Daulne

  Way, Firsts, Acoustics

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• Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

  Abigail Washburn

  Girl, Daughter, Heart

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• Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

  Jon Foreman

  Teaching, Desert, Followers

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• On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

  Homer

  Home, Rocks, Sea

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• We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Grateful, Heart, Hymns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 290. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

  Neil Gaiman

  People

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor:
  My voice, my right. My voice counts.

  Desmond Tutu

  Stars, Men, Rich Or Poor

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• There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Tone

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

  Paulo Coelho

  Song, Heart, Singing

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