Articulation Quote by William Safire Download Open image “When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Articulation Impossible Rescue
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't… — John Towner Williams Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
