Diction Quote by Aretha Franklin Download Open image “I still have perfect diction!” — Aretha Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diction Perfect Still
My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words — Arthur Scargill 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 behind him,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
With you I'm useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over again, as if the words I needed… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart and I will love you. Forever, forever, we never will part. Oh, how I love you. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality. — Shaquille O'Neal 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 what I… — Christopher Moore 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 commanding certificate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 it was… — Harper Lee 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 school? People… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction. — Miguel 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 man, his… — William Benton Clulow 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 Spirit and… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. — Moliere 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
When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different… — Keyshawn Johnson 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
