Quotes About Articulation

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

So speak to influence. Don't speak to call a flower yellow. Speak

It is quite possible to say that the price a Negro pays for becoming articulate is to find himself, at length, with nothing to be articulate about. (You taught me language, says Caliban to Prospero, and my profit on't is I know how to curse.)

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

The thoughts on the mind come out of mouth.

I'm not very good at standard English.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, even if you exercise, you'll play kickball one day, and then you're like, 'Wait, I run, but new places are hurting because I don't use my muscles this way.' My mouth was not used to making these sounds.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up whatever you're trying to say.

This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

I love tremendous and sonorous words.

But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on its tail, or slowly sinking and returning to the profound darkness which it has lit up momentarily with a wandering light.