Quotes About Articulation

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

I am no critic. Merely a humble observer who, when able, speaks on behalf of the tongue-tied multitudes otherwise known as the commonalty, or, more precisely, the rabble. An audience, understand, wholly incapable of self-realization or cogent articulation, and thus possessors of depressingly vulgar tastes when not apprised of what they truly like, if only they knew it. My meagre gift, therefore, lies in the communication of an aesthetic framework upon which most artists hang themselves

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

Words are never enough!

Theology is in crisis, largely because it has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose to help discern, articulate, and commend compelling visions of flourishing life in light of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ.

the former free-floating with vowels, the latter fortressed by consonants.

terms as a skilled use of words for the sake of communicating knowledge.

Some writers have excellent "control"; they know exactly what they want to convey, and they convey it precisely and accurately

She could not explain the subtleties of her feeling as clearly as he could state his opinion, even though she had skill in speech, and her father had none.

Perhaps, as with many men, their opportunities of observation were not so good as their opportunities of expression.

writing these things down, they clarify themselves, they move in words and sentences, and so take shape while in my own mind they are formless and not articulate.

The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.

the urge to bloviate).

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.

In order to speak clearly, you need to be able to think clearly. And to think clearly, you usually need to be able to write it clearly.

Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken,And every speche that ys spoken,Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair,In his substaunce ys but air.

Somwhat he lipsed, for his wantownesse,To make his Englissh sweete upon his tonge.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths, and that shakes the air; and the air shakes a pair of little drums in my head—a very complicated arrangement, with lots of bones behind—and my brain seizes your meaning in the rough. What a roundabout way, and what a waste of time.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.