“One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.” ShouldSelfStatesVoiceDevelopmentHigherOrdinaryConscienceServantHigher Self Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.” PeopleMeanAgeEasyVoiceResponsibilityAcceptingMiddleKingsNeededSafeOfficeOrdinaryEnglandAncientThings To DoSpeakersParliamentOrdinary PeopleMiddle AgesGrievancePetitionsDealingsEasy ThingsPressured Book:The House of Commons at Work Source: The House of Commons at Work
“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.” WayYearsActorsFoundVoiceNaturalSimpleFiveStageOrdinaryHollywoodStudiosFive YearsGesturesEliminating Author:Walter Huston
“I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.” PeopleIfsMenWellsStillsUseMightVoiceSingingOrdinaryDancingDrivingTruckDead Man Author:Elvis Presley
“Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!” WantHumansLittlesLongHeavenVoiceAliveCryOrdinaryWarmEnthusiasmThrillingHallelujahI'm Alive Author:John Osborne
“Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.” BigsLightGivenSoundVoiceSimpleUnitedInfluenceCitizensOrdinaryBiggerGreenAccessOrdinary CitizensGreen LightsCitizens United Author:Mark Shields
“Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.” PeopleThinkingKindPoliticalVoicePowerfulHeroMessagesOrdinaryTransformedStrifeOrdinary People Author:Viola Davis
“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.” WorldNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsIdeasWarGovernmentRunningCertainVoiceEconomyGoneEconomicCenturyColdOrdinaryAspectStonesWindowBillsClintonConservativeSurfaceLibertarianArguingPlanningSocialismRollingDominantCold War20th CenturyRolling StonesMarket EconomyBlahDissidentsCentralization Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsLittlesCountryMomentsHappensOpportunityVoiceResponsibilityGroupsQuietOrdinaryDeserveExtraordinaryEverydayOfficialsExtrasMarchPathwaysRemindingExtraordinary ThingsIfs AndElected OfficialsDeserve BetterQuiet VoiceOrdinary And Extraordinary Author:Nina Turner
“Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what's being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.” GivingMadeOpportunityVoiceDecisionCitizensOrdinaryOrganizationOppositionOrganizeLegislationCivil SocietyOrdinary Citizens Author:Thomas Pogge
“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!” TryingDreamGirlStarsSoundVoicePartyGreatnessSingingOrdinaryLonelyTownsRadioRapStuckQueensLoserTeenageHailTeenage Girl Author:Rob Sheffield
“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)” KnowsWellsLongStillsAgeWinningVoiceFiveDogOrdinaryShadowRainTwentiesConstantFolksTerrorWoodsMonstersClarityTriumphSunshineContractsGeographyTwenty FiveOrdinary LifeRabies Author:Stephen King
“He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critcal interest. "It might be fatal." Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?" He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.” SaidHandsMightEyeSidesVoiceInterestRealizingLossCuttingBloodOrdinaryDearBritishWideStaringRanPleasantMassiveCursingTessa GrayDear MeWide Eyes Author:Cassandra Clare
“The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back. In this ordinary life without Ren, I think my life with him was like a dream. Especially on a snowy night like this. On a night as cold as this. Someone keep this guy warm for me, please.” ThinkingLooksDreamNightGuyFeltVoiceLonelinessColdPleaseOrdinaryDeeperHearingWarmThis GuyOrdinary LifeSnowy Author:Ai Yazawa
“His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words become poetry. When he stands close to you, your life becomes a song, a praise. When he touches you, your smallest talents become gold; the most ordinary loves break your heart with their beauty.” IfsFirstsHeartSeemsSongSpeakVoiceBreakTalentColdOrdinaryGoldPraiseSmallestBreak Your HeartUnfeelingOrdinary Love Author:Martine Leavitt
“I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.” KnowsWantShouldFeelingsHateGirlSoundVoiceDogCryOrdinarySurfaceGladIceNecksSugarThickCharmingScratchesMaidensSwansLashesPlumsStray Dogs Book:Chime Source: Chime
“Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.” WritingMindKindMightPoetryLanguageSocialVoiceCommunicationOrdinaryProseDelicateDiscourseSpidersWitchcraftTeaseUnfathomableSly Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.” OrderVoicePrayerAttentionFailingSpecialListeningBearsOrdinaryAll ThingsToneAccentsGod Speaking Author:Charles Brent
“These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.” GivingHumansProblemAbleSpeakVoiceWallMessagesOrdinaryImportanceFamiliarFlightAviationAirplaneDiscussingPhantomsOrdinary LifeUnattainableReassuringNavigationHuman Voice Author:Charles Lindbergh
“When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.” IfsTogetherVoiceTalentOrdinaryLatinEvidentCautionEleganceNiceties Author:Horace
“Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.” SeemsScienceMotherReligionFatherNamesVoiceHeardStrangeOrdinaryToneDozen Author:Carl Sagan
“My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.” MomentsBigsKidsJoyMotherVoiceCarFindingsOrdinaryResponsibleSmileBelieverSunsetBeing ResponsibleSmall MomentsOrdinary Days Author:Jennifer Garner