Quotes About Articulation

It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.

The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

AÄŸz?nla söyleyemeyeceÄŸin bir ÅŸeyi, kaleme dayan?p yazmak neye yarar?

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

You, inquisitor, are a man who collects words. You collect mine.

The extreme idealist or formalist thinks of language in terms of how completely it represents the tiger, and since it can never fully get that right, would rather lapse into silence than speak.

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men's words.

Words, just sometimes, can set you free.

Words don't capture, they release.

What we say aloud can never quite capture what we feel inside, but that is almost the point. Words don't capture, they release.

It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of 'singing' the world. The initial form of language, therefore, would have been a kind of song.

Language realizes, by breaking the silence, what the silence wished and did not obtain.

In a unified whole of this kind, the learned parts of a language have an immediate value as a whole, and progress is made less by addition and juxtaposition than by the internal articulation of a function which is in its own way already complete.

Language is the system of differentiations through which the individual articulates his relation to the world.