Quotes About Articulation

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

Tears are words that need to be written.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

speaking out loud about anything which is in mind or brain is important !!Everyone can't.

Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.

Too often we confuse being emotional with expressing emotions clearly.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

For me it's been more important to plan what I want to say, have a mental road map for the points I want to emphasise, and then try to maintain my train of thought.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.