#voices

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#been #came #cats #children #did

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#any #cannot #long #lose #make

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#blooming #colors #everything #heart #instead

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#between #dictate #difference #favor #heard

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things. ↗

— Steve Brown

#busy #gotta #keep #me #start

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music