When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. — Moliere Copy Share Image
But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction. — Miguel Copy Share Image
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“It’s the Queen’s English now,’ observed Peter mildly. ‘Is there a difference?’ asked Oundle rhetorically. ‘I fervently hope not.’ ‘There will be… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
