Meryl Streep Quotes

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

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

I think it's really hard to find a good women's magazine, and I like that Glamour is way more about what you want and not what your man wants. I don't really know what it's like to be a woman yet, so I wouldn't have too much insight, but I guess it would be a bit interesting to have more of that granny style in there. Because I think it should be easier for women to feel like they don't have to be conventionally attractive or think of flattering clothing before they think of fun clothing.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

If you are a good communicator, be unique: put yourself in your own commercials and do something a little different. To the extent you can focus on what it is you want to change, what it is you know how to change, and what it is you think will make life better for other people, you're going to do better.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

I think communication is so firsbern.