“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For the role of a lawyer, I made sure I learnt the correct diction and most importantly I made sure I got… — Gurmeet Choudhary Copy Share Image
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I have tried making the roles that I have played in my career look different with my attitude, diction or my beahviour. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction… — Keyshawn Johnson Copy Share Image
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