Voice Quotes

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen home and the bird-worms are calmed into an ars poetica.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the last analysis, be always of whatever truth you would live.For fire flames but in the heart of a colder fire.All voice is but echo caught from a soundless voice.Height is not deprivation of valley, nor defect of desire,But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys should rejoice.

~ Robert Penn Warren

...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

~ Dianna Hardy

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

~ Kahlil Gibran

It’s good to want God to speak to you, but smarter to let God speak through you, because when God speaks through you, more than one can hear.

~ Donald L. Hicks

The voice, for its part, has the peculiarity that when released it carries the weight of the body from which it has come; since that weight is erotic reality, lovers believe they can embrace words of love, they believe they can make them into a continuum of love that will last forever.

~ César Aira

I felt his voice. Fingers rubbing moss. Smoke curling. Wood worn and smoothed over time. His voice had darkness in it that hovered close to the ground, like a mist hanging over a lake deep in a forest at dusk. A bolt of sea-green velvet. A sensation as much as a series of sounds. It reverberated inside me.

~ M.j. Rose

Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You are distinguished in life by your ability to recognize and follow God`s voice on daily basis.

~ Sunday Adelaja

People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.

~ Elif Shafak

His voice is so low I can feel it brushing my waist.

~ Chelsea Fine

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

~ Wilkie Collins

He said that things could be different in Little Rock, if only the right people could find their voice. I wanted to be on of those people.

~ Kristin Levine

For the soul-wounded woman. Your healed voice is my favorite sound. Your hurts, they walk right into our hearts; but your story of healing --- that can change lives. Never be afraid to find and use your voice.

~ Jo Ann Fore

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

~ Roland Barthes

...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

~ Stephen Koch

His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the burner. And unsweetened, bitter chocolate. But there's dirt in it too, deep, dark dirt, like the garden in October.

~ Jael Mchenry

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.

~ Holly Lisle

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.

~ Jo Ann Fore

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling. She grew still to listen.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your obsession is blinding you.” He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. “You’re losing yourself.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

~ Hannu Rajaniemi

A model is an actor without a voice.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” —Allen Ginsberg, WD

~ Jodi Woody

All I know: I could only encounter you, my oasis, coming out of a desert. Deserted myself. This is all right. My futureless and solitary self. When suddenly I hear the voice of the springs--Right away you made me want to sing. To cry. Then to drink. But after the desert, the merest trickle of water sounds like a storm. And ever since, Promethea's every murmur shakes my life like an earthquake. I was asleep. I was not thirsty. It would have been possible for me not to hear the first three tears. Ever since I never sleep. I listen.

~ Hélène Cixous

Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to.

~ Sarah Waters

There was something strangely compelling about a Japanese guy with lamb-chop sideburns and a voice so shrill you could be forgiven for thinking his testicles were wired to the national grid.

~ Jamie Holoran

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.

~ Gail Carson Levine

The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.

~ Steve Maraboli

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

~ Don Delillo

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

~ Maggie Kuhn

We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.

~ Elizabeth Hay

Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing minds at home, in the streets, and at the workplace - not just in legislatures and in the courts. Each and every one of us has and important role to play in completing that task.

~ Joan Biskupic