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Quotes About Articulation

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
~ Yann Martel
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.
~ Margaret Atwood
there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it.
~ Margaret Atwood
one of them had been limited to nouns, verbs, and roaring.
~ Margaret Atwood
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
~ Margaret Edson
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
She was innately suspicious of language because she could "hear" with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn't know how to talk very well.
~ Anne Rice
You've learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.
~ Anne Rice
Commoners always use too many words when they speak.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
~ Sharon M. Draper
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
~ David Duchovny
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
She hadn't understood the plan until she spoke it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
All the words I can find are stupid words, pointless ones.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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~ Elizabeth Bowen
Speak with emotions, not with words.
~ Baba Faiz
I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.
~ Alice Oswald
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
~ Buchi Emecheta
I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is musical.
~ Anupriya Goenka
I guess my diction just isn't very good.
~ Elizabeth Fraser
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.
~ Garrison Keillor
If you have an understanding and cannot express it, then your understanding is not yet complete.
~ Gary Snyder