Morgan Freeman Quotes

When I speak, I am well articulated.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

My brother's really well-spoken.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

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

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.

I don't have a problem expressing myself.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.