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"O how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enshrined visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet in the still small voice, and in a voice from the Burning Bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man." »Longfellow
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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is" »Samuel Butler
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"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper." »Barry Neil Kaufman
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"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'" »Sydney Harris
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"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"The voice of the people is the voice of God.
(Vox Populi, Vox Dei)" »Alcuin
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"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." »Vincent Van Gough
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"The voice of the people is the voice of God." »Alcuin
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"Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious." »Virgil, Eclogues
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"Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious." »Virgil
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"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war." »Homer
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"In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee." »Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
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"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"When Owl is singing, the Night is Silence. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow" »Omar Khayym
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"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken." »Homer
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"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." »Rod Serling
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"What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Conscience is the voice of the soul." »Polish Proverb
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"To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." »H.L. Mencken
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"If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?" »George Carlin
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