Quotes About Inner Voices

#1. It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you were just kind of having a bit of fun on your own doing silly voices in the bedroom.

Ashley Jensen

#2. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

Christiana Figueres

#3. The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus." - LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass

Connie Willis

#4. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

Anna Quindlen

#5. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. So much of what I do ... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are ... I love it.

Rob Thomas

#7. I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

Anne Tyler

#8. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.

Simon Spurrier

#9. If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.

Michael Mullen

#10. In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Noam Chomsky

#11. We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

Edna O'Brien

#12. We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

Francis Bacon

#13. I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

#14. I'm going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my parents try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don't want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.

Krista Ritchie

#15. 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.

Nikki Haley

#16. He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Michael N. Castle

#18. You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

Sanaya Roman

#19. I close my eyes and listen to the voices of the rain.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#20. You run away a lot," said one of the voices. "That is good. You are a survivor." "Survivor? I've nearly been killed dozens of times!" "Exactly.

Terry Pratchett

#21. An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.

Newton Lee

#22. When people died, they took their voices with them. I wondered if they knew how much the people left behind would kill for their sounds one last time.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#23. The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.

Rod Serling

#24. In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Christopher Buckley

#25. The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.

Margaret Atwood

#26. I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Issa Rae

#27. Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Randi Pink

#28. In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

Harold Pinter

#29. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

#30. When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#31. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

L.M. Montgomery

#32. Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,
While pain and guilt still linger here below,
Blindness and numbness
these please me alone;
Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#33. Everyone agrees.
The dead singers have the best voices.
At four o'clock in the morning
the dead singers have the best voices.

Franz Wright

#34. The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.

Stephen King

#35. I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Brian Wilson

#36. Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#37. My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

Mark Vonnegut

#38. My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#39. Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered.

Carol Drinkwater

#40. The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.

Shandy L. Kurth

#41. What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#42. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#43. And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.

A.B. Paterson

#44. I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

Eddie Vedder

#45. Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#46. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Clara Zetkin

#47. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

Leonard Peltier

#48. I'm hoping the students will hear their own voices actually, so it's not that they're looking for things they already know, they're looking to discover things they don't know. I would characterize it as the vitality of thought, the versatility of thinking.

Jill Johnson

#49. I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possiblility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery

Emily Saliers

#50. The voices were muffled; the din of a

Kate Moretti

#51. People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

Mike Judge

#52. I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

Leslie Mann

#53. I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

Daniel Tosh

#54. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#55. I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

Isabel Allende

#56. I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

R.S. Thomas

#57. His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.Flames burst forth from his skull like a corolla,shrieking like voices: -Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!

James Joyce

#58. Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Swanee Hunt

#59. Too many voices all at once on the internet, screaming, just all the time screaming, sometimes it's hard to be heard. Sometimes I think that the world is full of screaming.

Claire North

#60. He went until he felt it in their bodies, heard it in their voices. He went until there was blood, and he didn't stop until he got it.

Lucian Bane

#61. It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.

Mohammad Marandi

#62. Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.

Eleesha

#63. Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

George R R Martin

#64. Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

Stephanie Mills

#65. I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Victoria Legrand

#66. Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print.

Mordecai Richler

#67. America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

Gary Shteyngart

#68. Naked, tattooed men meandered around, lit torches, congregated in groups, spoke in hushed voices. It was like pictures I had seen on the internet of Comic Con, except no one was wearing a cape. And there were no females. So, yes, it was just like Comic Con.

Heather Rigney

#69. I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

Kailash Satyarthi

#70. As you walk the thin line between despair and hope . . . I wonder what your voices will sound like when you scream.

Takaya Kagami

#71. We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

Madeleine Albright

#72. An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

Pankaj Mishra

#73. As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

Mike Stoller

#74. He was the darkest of voices inside her head, the Night-kind King, and when he turned his gift of persuasion onto her, she wanted to take her soul out of her body and hand it to him.

Thea Harrison

#75. You need to silence the voices that say you cannot do what you set out to.

David Waweru

#76. To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

Gina Barreca

#77. Other than the voices in my head, I think I'm pretty normal.

Tom Upton

#78. To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

Marya Mannes

#79. It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.

Fredrik Backman

#80. I'm afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#81. There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

David Foster

#82. He sings so softly. Almost a whisper. Not like her father at all. Like the voices they give to the dolls, the men.

Emily Ruskovich

#83. Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices,
but because of the silence that is in it.

Karen Russell

#84. What happens when the world cares more about unique voices and remarkable insights than it does about cheap labor

Seth Godin

#85. As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Hillary Clinton

#86. Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them ... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Hermann Hesse

#87. I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.

Sufe Bradshaw

#88. I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Donatella Versace

#89. The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Harry S. Truman

#90. At the very heart of this book is my desire to make our voices heard. To act out of compassion and then watch as our actions do make a difference.

Tom Davis

#91. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

Paul Morabito

#92. I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

Beth Ditto

#93. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water.

Jeanette Winterson

#94. Listen to the voices in your head...it really doesn't mean you are insane.

Roselle Graskey

#95. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

#96. There was a sound in their voices which suggested rum.

Robert Louis Sevenson

#97. with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, "Th-they're following

Lindsay McKenna

#98. My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.

Alexander Chee

#99. Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

Alexander Smith

#100. He became one of the few voices in U.S. government to warn of the true ambitions of Hitler

Erik Larson