Martin H. Fischer Quotes

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

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

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

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

If you can talk, you can write.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

I'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

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

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

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

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

If something doesn't come out of your mouth right, you've got to acknowledge the fact that you're trying to deliver an honest performance. If it doesn't' come out of your mouth correctly, then it's not going to work.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.