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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
- Aberjhani

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
- Victoria Abril

Your voice is wild and simple.
Youare untranslatable
Into any one tongue.
- Anna Akhmatova

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive."
He smiled. "It helps you listen.
- Mitch Albom

I left you sweet and smiling in this goddamed bed and I don't see you or hear your voice for four days? Then I walk into your office and you give me attitude and tell me to kiss your ass because you're in a pissy mood about some shit you refuse to share? No. You gotta know, darlin', that shit don't play with me.
- Kristen Ashley

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
- Rene Auberjonois

I heard Your voice from on high. I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on me. And you will not change Me into you, like the food of flesh eats. But you will be changed into Me.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
- James Baker

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return..
- Deborah Barnes

If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.
- Julian Barnes

Keep your voice down. And before you go all badass cop on me, I'm the one who saved your life outside. (Nathan)
How do I know that? (Terri)
Let's use some logic. You stuck your head in here. Someone tried to use it for target practice, but I yanked you away before you ended up headless. If I was the shooter, you'd be dead now and we wouldn't be having this conversation. (Nathan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Four years with no sex? Don't tell me that you've forgotten this is the Age of Electronics? I mean, really, do any of your patients know how long you've gone without sex? (Selena)
Keep your voice down. I don't think it's the business of my patients whether or not I'm a born-again virgin. And as for the Age of Electronics, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
- Cecilia Bartoli

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.
- Cecilia Bartoli

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
- Cecilia Bartoli

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
- Desmond Tutu

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
- Desmond Tutu

It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.
- Elizabeth Berg

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.
- Haruki Murakami

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
- Jacqueline Bisset

In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.
- Joan Blondell

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
- Michael Bolton

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?"
"Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.
- Jorge Luis Borges

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
- Samuel Johnson

I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.
- David Bowles

I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.
- Sarah Rees Brennan

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,
While pain and guilt still linger here below,
Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;
Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti

Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
- Deb Caletti

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
- Maria Callas

You're mine," I told him, kissing each of his eyes before I looked at him. "No one gets you anymore; no one touches you anymore. Right?"
He nodded, and I felt his heated breath fan over my face. "Put me up against this wall."
"No." I shook my head. "No one sees you but me. No one hears you but me. All of you, your skin, your smell, your cum, all of it is mine, and especially your voice when you scream my name.
- Mary Calmes

Right, then." He pointed across to a bank of phones against the wall. "If you want to check your voice mail, now's the time."
"Where's my phone?"
"Out of service."
"It was fine in the car."
"It's not fine now."
"What'd you do to it?"
"Put it out of our misery. I'm sorry, Kate. But every minute it's on, you're traceable to within the length of a football field, anywhere on the planet.
- Jennifer Lee Carrell

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
- Helena Bonham Carter

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
- Dave Chappelle

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.
- Don Cheadle

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
- Helena Christensen

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.
- Terry Pratchett

We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.
- Francis Ford Coppola

What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak?
- Ally Condie

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.
- Kevin Conroy

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
- Doug Coupland

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.
- Celia Cruz

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
- Virginia Woolf

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.
- Virginia Woolf

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
- Don Delillo

Away in the distance, a train appeared behind the trees, all its compartments were lit, the windows were sure to be open. One of us started singing a ballad, but we all wanted to sing. We sang far quicker than the speed of the train, we swung our arms because our voices weren't enough, our voices got into a tangle where we felt happy. If you mix your voice with others' voices, you feel as though you're caught on a hook. (trans. Michael Hofmann)
- Franz Kafka

There are moments in which all of us need to have a backbone and feel that we have the right to say no to adults if we believe they are doing the wrong thing. You must find your voice and not be afraid to speak up.
- Jaycee Dugard

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.
- Jeff Dunham

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
- Albrecht Durer

And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.
- Kirsty Eagar

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the other thousands of rooms like this one today and tomorrow and next week will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
- William Faulkner

MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, "I'm going to be your surgeon? I'm here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?" Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
- Tina Fey

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
- John Fowles

It's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.
- John Fowles

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
- Will Friedle

Gods, woman," William said. "Your voice is like death. Can you shut it until I leave the room? Please. Seriously, you're like the one woman in the world I want to resist." -Page 271
- Gena Showalter

Well I've been calling myself Scarlet Pattinson for several weeks. Have you seen Robert Pattinson? Hottest. Man. Ever. And no, I don't care if that makes me a couger. He sings with the voice of an angel. Gods, I love when a man sings to me. You never did because your voice is terrrible." She shuddered in distaste. "I swear, its like a demon running its claws over brimsone.
- Gena Showalter

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
- Antoine Fuqua

When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.
- Jostein Gaarder

To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.
- Barack Obama

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
- Barack Obama

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
- Neil Gaiman

On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.
- Philip Larkin

Judith, you sound
horrible. What's the matter with your voice? Are you coming down with something?"
Judith shook her head. "I'm all right."
"You sound like you swallowed a frog.
- Julie Garwood

...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!'
'For how long?'
'O - ever so long. Days and days.'
'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!'
'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned.
- Thomas Hardy

A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.
- Ellen Hopkins

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.
- Michael Gough

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.
- Melanie Griffith

I love you, Nora. I will think you beautiful when I have no eyes left to see. I will remember your voice when my ears go. You can't hold on to me forever, but I will hold on to you until I am nothing but dirt.
- Lia Habel

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
- Sammy Hagar

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Smith

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.
- Kristin Hannah

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have -- your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book. It's worth writing. That is the belief that carries me through.
- Rachel Hartman

You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.
- Sean Hayes

Hold your pen and spare your voice.
- Dorothy Parker

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.
- Anasia Nicole Hixon

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'
- Tom Hooper

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
- Randy Jackson

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
- Samuel L Jackson

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R Murrow

I want to pour your voice into a goldfish bowl before flushing it down the toilet.
- Jarod Kintz

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone... two thinkers, you become confused... ten thinkers, you'll begin developing your own voice... two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
- Timothy Keller

Spanish, huh?" he said, glancing down at the scattered papers as he grabbed them. "Can you say anything interesting?"
"El tono de tu voz hace que queria estrangularme." I stood up and waited for him to hand over my papers.
"That sounds sexy," he said, getting to his feet and handing me the stack of Spanish work he'd swept together. "What's it mean?"
"The sound of your voice makes me want to strangle myself."
"Kinky.
- Kody Keplinger

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
- Ben Kingsley

I found I quite enjoyed having you under the same roof. Being able to see you, hear your voice many times a day. I miss that." His eyes locked on hers. "I miss you.
- Julie Klassen

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Kuhn

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
- K D Lang

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
- K D Lang

I got something to say to you, big shot."
"Say it, then," I said, "while I'm used to the drone of your voice. I'd rather not get acclimated again.
- Joe R Lansdale

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.
- Dorianne Laux

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.
- Avril Lavigne

In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don't be far from me, and also don't come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don't unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don't allow me hearing your voice
- Amin Maalouf

There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech." I said
Alexnder Naymeer and Bobby Pendragon, Raven Rise, Page 458
- D J Machale

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.
- Kathy Mattea

Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
- Kathy Mattea

Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.
- Anne Mccaffrey

I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.
- John J Mccloy

I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.
- Thia Megia

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.
- Esai Morales

i thought maybe if i met someone else that i'd be able to stop thinking about you, but it didn't work. nothing works. when i'm with them, i wish it was you. when they laugh or talk, i can't help but compare them to your voice or your laugh. it's always been you; it'll always be you, angel.
- Kirsty Moseley

The sidewalks flash silver with mica.
Skyline smeared with geese.
By way of recognition
I lost the sound of your voice.
- Ryan Murphy

But with you, whenever I'm with you, whenever I'm able to touch you and smell you, hear your voice, your thoughts, I feel like I've never truly known what being blessed was.
- S L Naeole

Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow
- William Nicholson

I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.
- Diana Palmer

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
- Anne Parillaud

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
- Lester B Pearson

Rory,
I used to think home was a place. Four walls with a door. Now I know it's your voice. Your laughter. Waking to your smile against my throat and your breath fluttering over my pulse while I turn you over and bury myself inside you...that's home. That's life and I've never appreciated it more.

- Cari Quinn

Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.
- Eddie Redmayne

For the rest of my life, I'll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name.
- Sylvain Reynard

I care for you-you're precious to me. And one of the most precious things to me is your voice. Please tell me what you want, what you need, what you desire..
- Sylvain Reynard

Your voice sounds like a midnight fire. All warm and worn in and golden. I could listen to you talk forever."
"I could never do that".
She laughed at him. He brought his lips to her ear.
"Your scent is like violets early in spring," he whispered. Then he laughed at himself because though it was true, he sounded like the worst kind of fool.
- Veronica Rossi

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.
- Rumi

I want to see you.
Know your voice.
Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.
Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.
Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.
Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.
I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
more
- Rumi

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
- Zoe Saldana

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.
- Greta Scacchi

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
- Kathleen Sebelius

I didn't like that look, and I didn't want it. But you can't just tell someone to knock off her look because she'll only give you another. And if you happen to raise your voice too much while asking her to stop looking, she'll hurry off to tell a friend about your behavior the second you walk out of earshot. And then that friend will come find you under some kind of pretense, wanting to decipher what's up your ass today.
- Andrea Seigel

Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective it's like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It's almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.
- Slash

I'll never forget you. I'll never forget your voice or your face or your dumb jokes. And i'll never forget your love.
- Jeri Smith Ready

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
- Mickey Spillane

They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go.... Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow.
- Tabitha Suzuma

Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere like a warm and comforting glow.
- Tabitha Suzuma

I want you, Delilah Anne. Never doubt that. I want a life with you. With your voice and your touch and your thoughts and your arguments. I want your grace and your mistakes and your promises and your everything, all twisted up with mine. I want it so bad that I feel like I can't breathe whenever I think about being without you.
- Dee Tenorio

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.
- Glenn Tipton

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.
- Spencer Tracy

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.
- Dalton Trumbo

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
- Blair Underwood

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.
- Ninette De Valois

The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.
- Dwyane Wade

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
- Billy West

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.
- Joanne Woodward

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
- Loretta Young

I want to wake up ev-ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin-gers on my skin and your heart beat-ing mu-sic with mine.
- Christine Zolendz

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