Quotes About Articulation

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

La maggior parte delle persone si ammala per non saper esprimere quello che vede e quello che pensa.

I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

This linguistic work, however, is not all that they do. They also function in intentionality: the syntax of language is related to the way things can present themselves to us, to the way we can intend and articulate them.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

But I understand it better than I can speak it.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

Precision of language, Jonah.

Lincoln enhanced the ability of his audience to hear him by his practice of speaking slowly.

los escritores escribimos mucho mejor de lo que hablamos)

The instant you put something like that into words, it was gone. Words and combinations of words - the more you relied on them, the less power you actually had.

Y de nada serviría intentar analizar cómo lo había logrado. Desde el momento que pones algo así en palabras, lo pierdes. Las palabras y las combinaciones de palabras: cuanto más dependieras de ellas, menor era tu poder real.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood.