…authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer…
– John Geddes
Related Quotes:
- …a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…. – John Geddes
- We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained. – Clifford Cohen
- you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer – John Geddes
- …wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit… – John Geddes
- …people quote proverbs without realizing they’re really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression… – John Geddes
- …bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius – not the display of talent… – John Geddes
- …if you’re an actor, and you’ve thought your way into the part, then you’re character portrayal will have authority… – John Geddes
- …each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse… – John Geddes
- Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. – GK Chesterton
- System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability. – Amit Kalantri
- Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Pray tell,- she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, … – Laurie R King
- More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason. – Billy Graham
- Don’t you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say…what has to be said? – Colette
- I didn’t intend it to come out sarcastically, but I guess that’s just where my tone of voice automatically goes these days. – MA George
- He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle -“ that should be his tone. – Margaret Atwood
- Drop. Your weapon. And. Come quietly,- said a robotic voice. -œKiss. My ???,- said Zita, mocking the robot’s tone. – Ash Gray
- His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man’s feeling of complete control. – Richard Price
- The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
- I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. – Gloria E Anzalda
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- …open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering… – John Geddes
- Love tone, rhythm, lyrical or melodic structure from heart to love! is the interlude of true love. – Auliq Ice
- You don’t gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don’t have any. – Benjamin Lotter
- You don’t gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don’t any. – Benjamin Lotter
- Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. – WJ Cameron
- Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong. – John Ralston Saul
- …to know an other’s interior life you are his confessor or a writer – the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits – John Geddes
- …you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can’t have a black one.. – John Geddes
- …what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth… – John Geddes
- …if you’ve got writer’s block, you aren’t empty – maybe it’s just like Twitter – overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while… – John Geddes
- …when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself… – John Geddes
- …If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-”but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum… – John Geddes
- …true love is an irrevocable act – you can only give your heart away once – after that, you give as much as you have left … – John Geddes
- …the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn’t always true… – John Geddes
- …true love is my religion… – John Geddes
- Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception – Brandon Sanderson
- Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively. – Thea Harris
- Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words – Elie Wiesel
- When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, -˜it means just what I choose it to mean-”neither more nor less. – Lewis Carroll