Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]
The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.
Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.
I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
I'm not very articulate.
The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion or a debate with anyone.
To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
