Articulation Difficulty Quotes

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

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

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known him, he has desired to have a long talk with me, but he never gets started; and yet each time he meets me with renewed zest for the outpouring. It is like getting congealed liquid from a demijohn; you know the jug is large and full, but getting the contents out is the problem.

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.

I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.