Quotes about Articulation
The way for a person to develop a style is to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.
- CS Lewis
Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.
- Aristotle
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Cicero
It is not easy to express the inexpressible
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
- Mark Twain
Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
- Mark Twain
But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- LM Montgomery
A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.
- Alain de Botton
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
- Anonymous
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
- George W. Bush
Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.
- Jason Fried