Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

- James Earl Jones

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

- Thomas Carlyle

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.

- Richard C. Armitage

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

- Rita Dove

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

- Mary Stewart

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

- Marcel Pagnol

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

- Mario Batali

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

- Miguel de Unamuno

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

- Juliette Lewis

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

- Atticus Shaffer

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

- John Henrik Clarke

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

- John Donne

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

- Joan Rivers

I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'

- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

- Hamish Bowles

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

- Errol Flynn

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

- Earl Long

Darren Aronofsky is on another level. You get lost in a scene, and he'll come over and whisper something in your ear, and suddenly everything makes sense.

- Douglas Booth