Quotes About Articulation

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

Updike "describes to no purpose.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

He's reading it pretty good, but he's still reading it from the page, and every once in a while he stumbles over his words.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

If someone had asked me when we started 'Bonanza' what was Ben Cartwright like, I couldn't have articulated very much.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

A man may be able, educated, refined, of unblemished character, nevertheless if he lack the power to express himself, put forth his views in good and appropriate speech he has to take a back seat, while some one with much less ability gets the opportunity to come to the front because he can clothe his ideas in ready words and talk effectively.

Perspicuity demands the clearest expression of thought conveyed in unequivocal language, so that there may be no misunderstanding whatever of the thought or idea the speaker or writer wishes to convey.

REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH

Joseph Devlin

You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

we must learn to live and to embrace the destruction and rearticulation of the human in the name of a more capacious and, finally, less violent world, not knowing in advance what precise our form our humanness can and does take. It means we must be open to its permutations, in the name of nonviolence. [...] The necessity of keeping our notion of the human open to a future articulation is essential to the project of international human rights discourse and its politics.

How do I know what I think till I see what I say?

I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Tolerated individuals will always be those who deviate from the norm, never those who uphold it, but they will also be further articulated as (deviant) individuals through the very discourse of tolerance.