Best Inarticulate Quotes
56 Inarticulate quotes by 49 unique authors
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
— John Dryden
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It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are…
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
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My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget…
— Joan Didion
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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity.…
— Stephen King
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Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered…
— Jessica Savitch
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
— Edith Wharton
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong…
— Charles Baxter
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
— William Golding
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Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.
— Eoin Colfer
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She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come…
— Wallace Stevens
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They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of…
— Leonard Cohen
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You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko…
— Koushun Takami
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Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently…
— Boris Pasternak
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As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do…
— Jonathan Tropper
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
— Virginia Woolf
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He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found…
— Edith Wharton
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Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour…
— John Crowley
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