Quotes About Articulation

I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.

John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66

Profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate fuckheads.

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

he appeared to be struggling with something trapped in his throat; it turned out to be a word. thanks, he said.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this - 'If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.

I'm not very good at telling things. I mean if I write things, I get them perfectly clear, but if I talk, it always sounds the most frightful muddle.

De taal is een instrument in handen van de gedachte, je moet je helder en exact uitdrukken.

I had spend a lot of time looking at things intellectually, coming from the head, let's say, rather than the heart, and saying things that way. Turns of phrases became paramount to any kind of feeling behind them, which is not to say they were all devoid of that.

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

I'm not as articulate as I'd wanna be.

You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.

You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.

But then again, representations are not (more or less faithful) pictures of what is, but productive evocations, provocations, and generative material articulations or recon-figurings of what is and what is possible.