Quotes About Articulation

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

It's said that actions speak louder than words," he went on, "but we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard".

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Well here again that don't apply But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.

Sometimes she can't find the right word, but she can find a word close to what she means. Anomia, the speech therapist calls

Your journal pages. Your effort to cry words

Las palabras nunca alcanzan cuando lo que hay que decir desborda el alma

Acho que compreendo por que a ladainha exige instintivamente o cair de joelhos. A mudança de posição é o simbolo de uma mudança na voz, no que a voz vai articular, no próprio articulado. Quando chego ao ponto de tocar essa mudança, as coisas que até um segundo antes me pareciam arbitrárias enchem-se de sentido profundo, simplificam-se extraordinariamente e ao mesmo tempo se aprofundam.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Cititul îl face pe om deplin, vorbirea îl face prompt, iar scrisul îl face exact.

Ath a MAN Writeth, So He Speaketh!

habit of speaking in paragraphs.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Since we routinely express ideas and feelings in language, we may be forgiven for assigning a role to it, but isn't it remarkable how often we struggle to find our words? It's not that we don't know what we thought or felt, but we just can't put our verbal finger on it. This would of course be wholly unnecessary if thoughts and feelings were linguistic products to begin with. In that case, we'd expect a waterfall of words!

It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way.

Speak dumb person, please.

getting the words out of my mouth felt like trying to push marbles through a keyhole.

preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.