Quotes About Diction

Talent is a combination of perfect comic timing, diction, modulation, great script writing and most importantly, an invincible will, if you may call it so.

But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.' His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.' You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at?

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

While I am fluent in Hindi, I was a little worried about my accent. So when I was approached for 'Karwaan,' I told them they need to first listen to me speak in Hindi, in case it sounds off.

Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.

There are two guiding principles in the choice of words,—good use and good taste. Good use tells us whether a word is right or wrong; good taste, whether it is adapted to our purpose or not.

I break up the English a little bit. I don't mean to do it, but it just comes out that way.

He uses language that would make your hair curl.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use of grammar of music.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

I had to do a lot of preparation for 'Kaaka Muttai.' I had to literally spend every night and morning in the slums, observing the life of people there, and work on my diction.

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

The main accent has to lie on diction, narratorship, not of course in a modern sense . . . but in an old Quintillian-based sense. —Frans Brüggen11

Every field of knowledge has its own technical vocabulary.

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

Somwhat he lipsed, for his wantownesse,To make his Englissh sweete upon his tonge.

There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Saying certain letters without moving my mouth is tough... like B, P and W, you know.