Amor Towles Quotes

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

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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.

When I speak, I am well articulated.

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.