Bill Murray Quotes

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

When I speak, I am well articulated.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I still have perfect diction!

We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

I don't talk in sound bites.

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be great, but then it's got to be delivered. It's a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.

I have always safely relied on my voice modulations. It has never let me down.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.