(98 quotes found)
“A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper”
Bary Neal Kaufman
“The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.”
Orson Welles
“[*Haute couture implies precision in lines] Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, ... If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
C.S. Lewis
“There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, / And the ricks stand grey to the sun, / Singing: - `Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover, / And your English summer's done'.”
Rudyard Kipling
“It keeps eternal whispering around / Desolate shores.”
John Keats
“My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready."”
William Stafford
“Talk in a normal voice. Terrorists are suspicious of whispering.”
Stanley Klein
“It's not what they say about you, it's what they whisper”
Errol Flynn