Voice

Famous quotes containing the word voice:

    There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 3:17-19.

    Cotton Mather died when I was a boy. The books
    He read, all day, all night and all the nights,
    Had got him nowhere. There was always the doubt,
    That made him preach the louder, long for a church
    In which his voice would roll its cadences,
    After the sermon, to quiet that mouse in the wall.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I wish I had the voice of Homer
    To sing of rectal carcinoma.
    —J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)