Quotes About Articulation

For the more words I had for things, the better I could frame my thoughts, the more vivid my thoughts became. Awareness deepened, consciousness sharpened.

Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

When the human voice is reduced to being no longer a song, a word, or a cry, but the articulation of the unnamable itself, it is natural that there should be no other sound than the grinding of ice in the polar regions, the light, intermittent crackling of silk in the highest zones of the atmosphere, at the moment when the aurora borealis unfurls its strange, cold spangles. Majesty does not tolerate other eyes than these hard crystals

Through the word, you express your creative power. It is through the word that you manifest everything.

I love the musicality of words.

I was also in love with the English language.

Every time I open my mouth to say what I'm feeling, something stops me and I have to make sure I'm not going to say anything stupid. It makes me crazy. And then, once I've figured out what I'm going to say, I have to go over it, over and over again, just to see if what I'm feeling is right. And then I have to figure out how to say it.

can envision a future when scientists will be able to provide a mathematically complete articulation of the fundamental microphysical processes underlying anything that happens, anywhere and anywhen.

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

My mother didn't like to hear profanity, and she certainly never spoke it. She had always told us that swearing was the sign of a lackluster vocabulary and, worse, a stunted imagination. There are so many interesting words to use, along or in combination, she said, that I don't know why anyone would fall back on one-syllable obscenities.

True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

if I could develop one new skill that would make a big difference in how most people communicate, it would be the skill of making a request.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

a rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.

I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent—what I meant to say—never quite made it out.

Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.

Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.