Articulate Communication Quotes

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Unlike the current occupant of the White House [George W. Bush], he has no difficulty in orally extemporizing a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.

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

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

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

Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

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.

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?