Voices Quotes

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

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.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.