“Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.” WorldIndividualVoiceCompanyEssentialsInstitutionsChaosControlledOrganizeLarge Companies Author:Martin Parr
“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.” WorldMeanWholeMomentsEyeReadingVoiceImaginationAbilitySpaceCompanyKeysEarsMereSaintWhole WorldAll TimeFancyFinestSageTime And SpaceSweetestWisestWittiest Book:Democracy and other Addresses Source: Democracy and other Addresses
“I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.” LongBookCharacterLastsVoiceCompanyRecordsDoorsHeardAffairSwearChordsLove AffairClicksFaded Author:Marya Hornbacher
“He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.” CharacterMightVoiceInterestingCompanyCircumstancesTemperHarshInteresting Characters Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.” VoiceCompanyNew YorkNervousTelephonesSurveillanceNew York TimesDecember Author:Barton Gellman
“Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.” VoiceInterestChallengesCompanyTechnologyHugeDataMidstTelephonesInfrastructureDeliveryConvergence Author:Steve Crocker
“Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.” IfsVoiceCompanyLessonsMouthsLipsOilNraOil Companies Author:Bill Maher