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- 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
- But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'. — will.i.am
- With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Unknown Author
- 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
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson
- Fact is richer than diction. — J L Austin
- Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the… — Arthur Wallis
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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