Whether you read her remarkable non-fiction, such as I Am Woman, her inspired published oratories in Memory Serves, or her gorgeous fiction, such as her most recent novel Celia's Song, you'll know you're encountering a once-in-a-lifetime voice.
Lubna Nowak, one of the Snowden campaign team, said: "We're giving students a stage, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to voice their own discontent with mass surveillance.
"Yes, yes," people say as if to wave away the subject, quieten the old opera-bore, soothe a child who tells of improbable adventures which you know the real world lacks resources to supply, But no: that night was one of the great events of a lifetime, and the voice of wonder is not so easily silenced.
Demons — or a lifetime of internalized voices — assailed him.
"John has spent a lifetime fighting to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the struggling," Mr. Obama said.
Despite a lifetime of raising her voice, Ms. Banks projects a genteel calm as she sits in a parlor that holds her mother-in-law's antique furniture and a shelf of scrapbooks detailing various political campaigns and civic battles.
Though I wish you a long, successful marriage filled with love that lasts a lifetime, please don't voice your opinions about our lives until you've lost a spouse.
"John Edwards has spent a lifetime fighting to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the struggling, even when it wasn't popular to do or covered in the news.
My voice teacher helped me to see voice as a lifetime instrument, so it wasn't until recently that I let my inner belt fly.
She hated herself for the way she was speaking to him, the voice of a lifetime of appeasement.
