I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never knew that Raffi turned down celebrity endorsements, TV shows, and specials and refused to make merchandise, but it… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I'd forgotten. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that.… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness.… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise.… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Everything she wanted to tell her, was unable to tell her, because she was afraid of hearing her own voice come out… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every… — Jeff Zentner Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
It's been cool to see on the Voice all these up-and-coming artists from all over the country just develop and follow their… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I thought I had a pretty good American accent but I had a few sessions with a voice coach over there and… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image