Voice of Authority Quotes

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'

When I was very young, I didn't talk a lot. If an adult was speaking, I was listening. I think it was the moment I turned 18 when I was like, 'I'm an adult now and have opinions and things to say, so now it's time for people to listen to me.'

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

I was a girl who believed in the color of my voice and what I had to say.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?'

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

I've learned to recognize that I'm in certain rooms for a reason, and I've learned - if I have an opinion or something I want to say - to say those things and not feel afraid about it.

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was the voice of God, the image of God. When I went to start making docs, I quickly turned the megaphone to my ear not to my mouth. It's more about funneling in the words and listening as doc filmmaker.

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

I've always been a girl with a massive opinion.

I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.