Quotes About Eloquent

My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.

If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.

Jefferson was among the greatest men who had ever lived, a Renaissance figure who was formidable without seeming overbearing, sparkling without being showy, winning without appearing cloying.

Her voice was loud, penetrating and very, very posh. You know the expression "speaks with a plum in her mouth"? Well, this one spoke with the whole tree.

For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

They come from my imagination; for, as you know, truth is silent, and it is imagination only which waxes eloquent. Reality represses the flow of feeling like a rock; imagination cuts out a path for itself.

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Words so vascular and alive they would bleed if you cut them, words that walked and ran.

Pitt and Burke were two of the most eloquent and respected members of Parliament, and taken together, by early 1775, they were warning the British ministry that it was headed toward a war that was unwise, unnecessary, and probably unwinnable.

Mom was stubborn, and eloquent.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.

This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known, to resolve - or make usefully vivid - the contradiction, and to make the silence eloquent.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

I've never been called a man of few words.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.