Diction Quotes

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Fact is richer than diction.

But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.

I like to try and mix diction and experiences.

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.