The Voice Quotes

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

...so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices.

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

As a female filmmaker it's important to have a voice for and about women. We have a lot of valuable stories to tell and young girls need to hear them.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

I have a right to voice my opinion, but you know - when you can't really make choices, it really don't matter.

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

My soul, you can have it. I'd sell it to the devil for another hit. I hear voices.

If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.