Quotes About Articulation

Words are like breath. You say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

There can never silence or dead air so you're constantly having to talk about something even if in your head you're like 'I don't even know what I'm saying right now.' But you have to still be interesting.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Our job is not to dictate the policies of our candidates or even influence them but simply to articulate them in the most clear and meaningful way to the relevant audience.

struggling to compress the vastness of what I felt into words.

Talking isn't hard," she whispered to herself. "You've been doing it since you were two. You know how to do this.

Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

To say a feeling, an impression is to diminish it - expel it

Precision in language was the key to clarity. Specificity

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Since words are like the color of a painting, how you organize and use them will have an effect on the discussion as a whole, choosing your words carefully is a talent that may dramatically improve your capacity to frame any discussion"

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Porque todo eso es para decirlo una vez y olvidarlo; o basta con decirlo así para que perdure.

Ecrire, c'est une façon de parler sans être interrompu. (Writing, it's a way of speaking without being interrupted.)

Voice is the first instrument.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

You've always got to have something to say, haven't you? For an interview. Something to talk about.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.

No puedo explicar nada sino balbucir el fuego que me quema.

It was the words that seemed to dislodge my most secret feelings.