Quotes About Articulation

Plan what you want to say. Write an outline. Then ask yourself, Does this get across whatever I'm trying to say? Refine it until it does.

Language is the dress of thought.

has been demanded, on one hand, that men should write as they speak; but, as it has been shown that this conformity never was attained in any language, and that it is not more easy to persuade men to agree exactly in speaking than in writing, it may be asked, with equal propriety, why men do not rather speak as they write. In

The words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

Even in a few minutes' conversation, do you realize how many times what you feel is converted before it comes out as what you say?

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

To speak to an audience day after day for a long period is to find out something about oneself. So often we don't know just what we think or feel about this subject or that till we have occasion to marshall our views and to put them into words.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Los libros se escriben para hacerse oír, no para quedarse callados.

words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time.

That man is sharp who can say what he wants in a minimum of words.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

No hay forma de expresar determinadas cuestiones, y otras son tan complejas que un hombre languidece y muere antes de encontrar las palabras adecuadas.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.