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Your Quotes for 25 February 2006 - Voice

The Italian tenor Enrico Caruso was born at Naples, Italy on this day in 1873. He was the 18th of 21 children, but the first to live past infancy. First as a boy soprano, and later when he was considered the King of Tenors, his voice was powerful and clear. Recording technology during his life doesn't allow us to compare him to today's tenors, but I'll use the occasion to pick quotes on Voice.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
     - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars

I cannot sing the old songs
  I sang long years ago,
For heart and voice would fail me,
  And foolish tears would flow.
     - Charlotte Barnard

Eloquence lies as much in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the speaker's manner, as in his choice of words.
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.
     - Harry S Truman, 1884 - 1972

The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
     - Henry Ford, 1863 - 1947

But the Lord was not in the wind:
  and after the wind an earthquake;
  but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
And after the earthquake a fire
  but the Lord was not in the fire:
  and after the fire a still small voice.
     - I Kings 18:44

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