“It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.” YearsRememberVoiceSingingYears AgoMumJoiningChoir Author:Susan Boyle
“Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.” YearsWould BeSpeakVoiceMy OwnTechnologyParticularYears AgoMiracleTwentiesFamiliarDragonsPrintAccentsUnthinkableAppsIpads Author:Robert Genn
“I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.” IfsTryingYearsBookDifferentSpeakVoiceLosesFemaleYears AgoCarolsDifferent VoicesGroundbreakingFemale Voice Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone.” MenYearsHas BeensTwoStatesVoiceReligiousUnitedPowerfulLibertyUnited StatesAtheismSubjectsRight NowBattleHundredMen And WomenYears AgoRaisedPositive AtheismFavorsGreat MenConvinceBigotryReligious LibertyConvince Us Author:Isaac Asimov
“The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.” YearsFirstsShowsNamesVoiceFirst TimeYears AgoHoustonWhitney Author:Oprah Winfrey
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?” IfsThinkingShouldYearsHumansMeanLittlesEndsUseSoundVoiceHalfHundredYears AgoShould HaveEarsMiracleToneIronDelicateTelephonesWireElusiveNuanceCorrespondenceHuman VoiceDisk Author:William Crookes
“I think it's something that you learn to deal with the more experienced you become. When I first presented live news, which was 12 years ago, I was very inexperienced and probably didn't deal with the pressure as well. I used to breathe very shallow when I was presenting and you could hear it in my voice and see it in my face.” ThinkingYearsFirstsWellsFacesUsedVoiceDealsNewsYears AgoPressureBreatheShallowPresenting Author:Jill Douglas
“I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.” PeopleThinkingYearsVoiceTermSeeingSixYears AgoAddFinancialEightHonestlyMainstreamInquiryCritiqueDissidentsFinancial System Author:Eliot Spitzer
“I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.” KnowsWayYearsDoeHomeSeemsRememberGuySpeakVoiceInterestingWifeHeardStrangeSittingYears AgoMachinesMy WifeOscarsThrillingCouchesKevinAnswering Machines Author:Christopher Walken
“The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.” YearsIdeasArtistVoiceHappenedCreaturesYears AgoOptimisticThirtySolitaryThirty Years Author:Wendy Ewald
“20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.” TryingYearsLittlesI CanUseBigsVoiceRecordsSmartYears AgoPhonesRadioTapeDeckAppsHandyMemos Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an extremely exciting time with a multitude of opportunities for each and every one of us to engage our individual voices, to engage more effectively collectively, to tackle some of these issues that would have seemed beyond our reach just a few years ago.” ThinkingYearsDifferentOpportunityIndividualVoiceLevelsIssuesDangerousYears AgoExcitingRangeMultitudesDifferent Levels Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.” WorldYearsMeanWholePastSongProcessEnjoyVoiceChallengesAcceptingGoneFourFieldsPeriodsYears AgoNotesCriticalAround The WorldRangeFour YearsJoyful Author:Joan Baez
“A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my heart. That's what my doctor said." And we'd say, "Yeah, but not for breakfast." Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael's house.” WritingYearsFirstsHeartSaidUsedSongHouseFeltVoiceMy HeartRedYears AgoDoctorsSickDiedYeahWineInspiredAlbumsStayingBreakfastPilotsAlcoholismGrandmaWriting SongsComplicationMy GrandmaRed Wine Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.” YearsFirstsVoiceHeardYears AgoAnimationAnimated Author:Judd Nelson
“Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.” IfsThinkingWantYearsHumansKindMatterFactsFeelingsCareSpiritualVoiceCommonMistakePracticeDespairYears AgoCrossesBurdenDon't CareArguingRelievedSpiritual PracticeVoices In My Head Author:Leonard Cohen
“I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.” YearsSongVoiceRecordsYears AgoDepth Author:John Mellencamp
“I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.” ThinkingYearsShowsVoiceActingYears AgoPerformancesTalesProducersEndeavorEpisodesRabbitsRogerVoice OverOsmosis Author:Joel Silver
“Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived” IfsThinkingMenYearsBelieveLittlesMadeWarSometimesRunningSidesVoiceChallengesAliveEasierYears AgoArmyAncientGladMade ItSurvivedSkullsVery DeepEmbeddedMushroomsTrenchesLittle Man Author:Pat Barker
“I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate.” NeedsYearsLittlesTwoLostSoundVoiceBreakGrewYears AgoTreatsMarkQueensTemplesTwo YearsChestsVeinsTensePawnsFilingTwo Years AgoMettleCheckmate Author:Larissa Ione
“Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.” KnowsWorldWayYearsBelievePurposeGamesVoiceAnswersStudyHappenedYears AgoAbsolutesTwentiesAssumingPracticalsPensNbaGrayArrogantCowardlyPlayoffsUnfathomableUnclearPlayoff Games Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.” YearsHelpingEyePainTogetherBeautifulMovingMotherPeaceVoiceForgetCuttingMagicCreatingYears AgoEarsDiedMirrorsTablesMotherhoodCirclesKitchenPleasantBrownYellowTendernessLooking BackSweetnessPalmsCrystalsMantrasRemindingRadiantVasesKitchen TableForget MeYour BeautifulMoldingMagic WordsScoldingDon't Forget Me Author:Wallace Stevens