Quotes About Articulation

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I want that sort of thing — not ideas, you know, but a way of putting them.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

You gotta use cuss words when you don't have no intellect.

I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat.

You need to teach your lips how to be persuasive," I would say, "You have a profound way of thinking, but you will lose your audience if you attack them. How could you have said that with more appeal?

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

It's easy to repeat; it's hard to speak