Quotes About Articulation

I'm two eyes looking out of a suit of armor. I write because I can't talk.

Language only felt infinite; instead, everyone swam through surprisingly narrow channels when they spoke or wrote.

Everyone has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

As Virginia Woolf testified in On Being Ill, "English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.

It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

right, until he found just the right words – not too difficult words, but words with some fire and juice in them.

Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

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

Thoughts to words, words to paper. A gift we give ourselves, both now and later.

Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

It's not an easy message to deliver quick off the tongue.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said,And the words to say it flow with ease.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ma tristesse est indéfinissable. Vous avez raison de m'adresser ce reproche. La parole ne peut jamais dire ce dont je veux parler et je ne sais comment le dire...

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

He writes like he´s afraid someone might actually understand him.