Quotes of: Human-voice Keyword

The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. T...

Anne Rice

At dusk in the Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, Melissa Overton barely heard the constant sound of crickets chirping all around them. Prowling through the dense, tropical rainforest as a jaguar, she listened for the human voices that would clue...

Jaguar Pride

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

Phoebe Philo

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Hillary Clinton

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

Shadow

Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.

Marginal Voices: Selected Stories

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

I believe that theology is facing the abyss. I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.

The Train of Arousal

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

In Persuasion Nation

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Come here, female!" a thundering voice called out to Sorvus. A thrill of excitement at this male's voice instantly shot up her spine. It is him, she thought. It is my Destoul.

Recompense

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

The Voice at the Back Door

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson

There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

Your Voice in My Head

In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.

Your Voice in My Head

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you...

Joanne Woodward

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

Nic Pizzolatto