Markus Zusak Quotes

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Who has words at the right moment?

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

This fellow has a silver tongue

Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

My brother's really well-spoken.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.