Verbal Clarity Quotes

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?

Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.