Quotes About Inarticulate

Much later, I discovered Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's wonderful remark about Experience and Nature: "Although Dewey's book is incredibly ill-written, it seemed to me … to have a feeling of intimacy with the universe that I found unequaled. So methought God would have spoken had He been inarticulate but keenly desirous to tell you how it was.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Craw didn't just grunt - he made sounds like barnyard animals going to bed at night. The more frustrated and/or inarticulate he felt, the bigger the animal. This particular grunt sounded like a constipated cow.

Real desire lacks articulacy.

the long call, the cry which always sounded like an inarticulate howl of pain.

Haig and Robertson were two of the most inarticulate officers in the British Army. Haig could write lucid notes and detailed instructions but was unable to express himself clearly at meetings or discussions, while Robertson's normal response to any query or criticism was either an explosive grunt or the dour comment 'I've heard different.

He had the unfortunate combination of being garrulous without being articulate.

feel very deeply. Even romantically. But those feelings live inside my heart and my head. I can't translate them to the rest of me.

To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.

I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

he had nothing to say and he said it

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

In class I was out of place because I could so easily be distracted from concepts by metaphors and facts. Clearly, I was less intelligent than I had hoped, and I felt frustrated by an inarticulate notion that something was wrong if old material was processed as if the immediate past and the uncertain future had no bearing on it.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.

Then she screamed. There were no words in it, nor could there have been. Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate.

I had a million things to say and none I knew how.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.