“And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.” MenMomentsInspirationNightFaithAsksVoiceWalksVisionBoysSawsHeardSeaCryMouthsLettersWesternWoodsOpeningTheeIreland Author:Saint Patrick
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.” FirstsKidsAgeSchoolBeautifulGirlThreeVoiceVisionBoysGrowingMagicMiddleSummerShotsSkinsMiracleTeethContactFixedBreastsFlawsTallInchesLensesEmergingDoveCrookedMiddle SchoolBracesBlurryContact LensesCrooked Teeth Book:The Age of Miracles Source: The Age of Miracles
“I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!” MenWritingPersonsMightUsedVoiceVisionBoysOld ManComing OutGrandpa Author:Paul Westerberg
“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.” FeelsShouldChildrenLittlesEyeVoiceLinesBoysFourWonderfulToughMarkMiseryHis EyesSpokesWhiskeyLittle BoysWhiskyScotch Whiskey Author:Martha Gellhorn
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.” LooksWarTodayPeaceVoiceBoysHellGenerationsBearsHorrorGloryLook UpWarning Author:William Tecumseh Sherman
“There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which rests on everything and finds nothing to calm it. They seek solitude; they weep; the silence to be found in cloister attracts them: the image of peace that seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.” FirstsMomentsSeemsFallGirlFoundHouseWishVoiceReligiousMistakeSilenceBoysAtheismFashionCallingSolitudeEmbraceCalmPositive AtheismContraryDevelopingManifestationMelancholyVagueReignSeducingVoice Of GodEvery Girl Author:Denis Diderot
“I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn't realise I was going to have to do it live.” FirstsVoiceBoysCoupleKneesCoachingRealisingTerrifiedBuckles Author:Keira Knightley
“I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.” IfsMenWantKindI CanSchoolRememberUsedSongVoiceWalksBehindsBoysMiddleChangedPicksDevastatedMiddle School Author:Dianna Agron
“I'm always thinking about that young girl or young boy who doesn't quite know if their music, their messaging, their imaging, their voice is going to pop, if people are going to understand them. So I represent the other and those who feel like they don't even want to be normal. They embrace the things that make them unique.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsYoungGirlVoiceBoysNormalUniqueEmbracePopsAlways ThinkingImaging Author:Janelle Monae
“My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.” ChildrenFatherVoiceBoysFiguresFilmmaker Author:Sheldon Candis
“Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.” IfsValuesVoiceOpinionBoysRidiculousNoiseAffectedSincereOutfitsPoshVowelsBeing Sincere Author:Boy George
“One of those strange things that happens in movies is that you need someone to actually say people's names, or else you have no idea who those kids are. This was a way for her to introduce who the important boys were in the story, but then it just was so funny that it became a centerpiece to it. When you look at the character design that Tim did for Weird Girl, and what Catherine [O'Hara] did with the voice, and it's gonna kill.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksImportantIdeasCharacterStoriesHappensKidsGirlNamesVoiceBoysDesignStrangeNo IdeaIntroducingStrange ThingsCenterpiecesCharacter Design Author:John August
“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.” DifferentWould BeWantedTogetherFeltVoiceEffortEmotionBoysCuttingHeardGoes OnSceneFinalsBe GoodDifferent EmotionsDido Author:A. R. Rahman
“The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.” LittlesHas BeensWholeKidsBitsVoiceMy OwnBoysWorryHugeAmountLittle BitSingingLovelyClassical MusicSopranosLovely Voice Author:Sam Amidon
“My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.” FirstsDifferentVoiceInterestQualityBoysSingingFemaleScalesOperaAmazedChorusChoirSopranos Author:Alexander Chee
“I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.” KidsFightingSoundVoiceBoysHeavyLike A Boy Author:Mavis Staples
“I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.” PeopleWantLittlesSchoolGirlVoiceBoysAfrican AmericanBulliedBoy And Girl Author:Normani Hamilton