#voice

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#between #children #cruelty #discipline #does

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#beautiful #cole #day #emulate #favorite

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#care #first #first thing #how #last

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #communication #few #forms #heard

I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world. ↗

— John J. McCloy

#found #i #loud #out #raise

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice. ↗

— James Merrill

#fresh #i #language #left #me

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it. ↗

— Duane Michals

#head #interesting #little #says #then

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#bone #both #clarity #down #gentleness

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. ↗

— Bill Monroe

#high #i #mandolin #tenor #voice