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"Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk"
"While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not."
"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
"The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace."
"I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head"
"There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell."
"Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort."
"My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”"
"The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand."
"The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity."
"Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner."
"...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe."
"I think it's too late for prayin, hold up, a voice spoke to me and it slowly started sayin' 'Bring your lifestyle to me I'll make it better. I'll make your life better than you can imagine or even dreamed of.' I see demons. So relax your soul let me take control. You go down with the devil. Now roam through the depths of hell, where the rest your homeboys dwell."
"It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken."
"Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless."
"By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh."
"Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice"
"Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice."
"Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?"
"Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage."
