Belter Quotes

#1. That kind of woman who used to be there at the time is not here any longer. In 10 years, people disappear. But I fantasize still about those kinds of women, and that kind of life that doesn't really exist any longer.

Manolo Blahnik

#2. I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

Amy Winehouse

#3. Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

Jessie Mueller

#4. Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

Laura Benanti

#6. I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I was told that he had once published it, but the learned world had only laughed at him. I think his wits were a little deranged.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.

Nicolle Wallace

#8. I'm the devoted slave of anyone who doesn't claim to have attained dining with God at every way station. Many inns must be left behind before you reach your home.

Rumi

#9. Ren, her official second, was a Belter and, like all Belters, passionate about environmental control systems the way normal people were with sex or religion.

James S.A. Corey

#10. Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.
Otani: What's that?
Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

Heikichi Nakao Otani

#11. It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.

May-Britt Moser

#12. The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chaste woman knows no second man.

Anonymous

#13. I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

Rick Yancey

#14. Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.

Carmen Ejogo

#15. Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head.
Eddie DeChooch

Janet Evanovich

#16. The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use.

Malti Bhojwani