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. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
In winter, some voices are like coats.
Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.
I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
The voices of the people are the voices of God.
I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers' voices be heard, but they should actually have a seat at the table. You have the old boys' club discussing how the old boys' club should be reformed.
My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.
Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once upon a time We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told We need words to hold us and the world to behold us For us to truly know our souls
I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple personalities. But I don't write to make an argument on behalf of any of the characters, or to prove anything about a character. I think that's important that I be serving the story first and not my own point of view.
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
We have developed psychic powers in other lives. Now we have many problems because of it, many voices in the mind due to this crowded earth.
Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.
It's always fun watching new actors and new voices come out.
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.