Quotes About Diction

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.

REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH

When writing a letter the street laborer should bear in mind that only the letter of a street-laborer is expected from him, no matter to whom his communication may be addressed and that neither the grammar nor the diction of a Chesterfield or Gladstone is looked for in his language.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.

Her diction was formal, her sentence structure entirely grammatical—indeed, you could almost hear the commas, semicolons and full stops.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

When you write it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women in your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoin daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

There's always a better word than a swear word.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.

Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach   Of ordinary men; a stately speech!

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

I am richer than you, therefore my wealth is superior to yours'; and 'I am a better speaker, therefore my diction is better than yours.' But you are neither wealth nor diction.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

I still have perfect diction!

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.