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Quotes About Articulation

He waved his hand, trying to find the right words. "Lord Arland, sometimes it helps to speak plainly." "Sword," he said.
~ Ilona Andrews
There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. Fine.
~ Ilona Andrews
You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!
~ Iris Murdoch
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication—but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.
~ Isaac Asimov
y así fui descubriendo de a poco una manera articulada de expresar la rabia sorda que me había acompañado siempre.
~ Isabel Allende
When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.
~ Deepika Padukone
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
~ Dorothea Brande
I've always appreciated a turn of phrase.
~ John Kennedy
Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.
~ Steve Wozniak
My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.
~ Pattiann Rogers
He talked with more claret than clarity.
~ Susan Ertz
I'd never been fond of gratuitous cursing. I figured it was lazy, a communication habit of people who couldn't be bothered finding the correct word.
~ Susan Lyons
When you're sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
~ Susanna Kaysen
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
~ Neville Marriner
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
~ Roman Jakobson
Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feelings are very hard to express by words.
~ Luffina Lourduraj
Heart...Soul...Words
~ Leslie Hachtel
A woman is always better in everything with the mouth
~ she talks a lot.
It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What is easy to conceive is clear to express / Words to say it would come effortlessly.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
fluency without content
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We hear a voice that tends to be modulated with an intensity appropriate to the situation and with clear pronunciation
~ Nathaniel Branden
The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, the words are in no language anyone can understand.
~ Neal Shusterman