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"The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact."
"I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29."
"I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time."
"I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done."
"New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love"
"Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there."
"I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things."
"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."
"Truth is what the voice within tells you."
"The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely."
"The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat."
"I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near."
"My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice."
"For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing."
"The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice."
"Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers."
"In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live.""
"Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!"
"The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut."
"A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."
