Quotes About Articulation

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone(117).

There was no tracking the precise words, but there probably weren't any. Sometimes language couldn't go far enough. All you could do was scream.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

When you can articulate your subject in a few sentences, in terms of action and character, you're ready to begin expanding the elements of structure and story. It may take several pages of free-association writing about your story before you can begin to grasp the essentials and reduce a complex story line to a simple sentence or two. Don't worry about it. Just keep doing it, and you will be able to articulate your story idea clearly and concisely.

A good talker is sensitive to expression, to tone and color and inflection in human speech. Because he himself is articulate, he can help others to articulate their half-formulated feelings. His mind fills in the gaps, and he becomes, in Socrates' words, a kind of midwife for ideas that are struggling to be born.

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

The state is not a cause but an articulation of secularization.

writing was not just a way to record what someone said; it could help you decide what you would say before you said it. And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. When you wrote them down, you could grasp your thoughts like bricks in your hands and push them into different arrangements.

You could not find the places where words began and ended by listening. The sounds a person made while speaking were as smooth and unbroken as the hide of a goat's leg, but the words were like the bones underneath the meat, and the space between them was the joint where you'd cut if you wanted to separate it into pieces. By leaving spaces when he wrote, Moseby was making visible the bones in what he said.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

I am a humble speaker, I speak very well.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

Be it Hindi or Hinglish, Zee was never and will never be speechless.

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.