Articulacy Quotes & Sayings

Christmas was over. It had passed, as usual, in a fever of generosities, and left an aftertaste of swindle in its wake. "Anticippointment" Pamela said ... and there was in that invented word all the regret and resignation that forty-seven years of Christmases had built up in her. — David Leavitt

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

Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it. — Jun Mochizuki

Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth. — Emil Cioran

He was astounded, sometimes, by the fluid articulacy of his own fury. — Louisa Young

Had I known you were going to pull a pretty ribbon out of your sleeve like some two-bit magician, tie me up with it, and indulge your mental torture fetish in your basement, I would've shot you. Many times."
"Two-bit magician?"
"Men like you enjoy being flattered. — Ilona Andrews

I heard when I talk, they all listen,
They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians.
I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin'
Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas. — Torae

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world. — Leon Panetta

YOUR BOREDOM IS YOUR PROBLEM," said Owen Meany. "IT'S YOUR LACK OF IMAGINATION THAT BORES YOU. HARDY HAS THE WORLD FIGURED OUT. TESS IS DOOMED. FATE HAS IT IN FOR HER. SHE'S A VICTIM; IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU. WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING! — John Irving

For one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize. — H.P. Lovecraft

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. — Frederic Raphael

The room is full of you! - As I came in
And closed the door behind me, all at once
A something in the air, intangible,
yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick! - — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power. — Andy Crouch

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue. — Mahatma Gandhi

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her. — Jonathan Dee

Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones. — Gard Skinner