Quotes About Articulation

A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

I don't know how to explain it." "Try words. If that doesn't work, we'll move on to interpretive dance.

A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.

My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

He spoke as if he held marbles in his mouth. 'Más o menos'--more or less--came out as 'maomay.' He was on a low-consonant diet, feasting on vowels

interpreting to [ourselves] the directions of [our] lives, [our] pasts, presents, and futures. Small details and big developments. [We are] attaining clarity about [our] own hearts. . .arriving at self-knowledge as well as knowledge of the world. [Our] goals for work, for family life, and for personal development naturally [grow] out of this knowledge, as a powerful by-product of [our] habits of articulation.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

Thought is made in the mouth.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

The hardest thing was simply to speak.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed.

For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I'm going to punch words in your ear holes.

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror. Despairing, then, of describing the emotional pain itself, the depressed person hoped at least to be able to express something of its context, its shape and texture, as it were-by recounting circumstances related to its etiology.

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Gib Worte deinem Schmerz: Gram, der nicht spricht, / Presst das beladene Herz, bis dass es bricht.