Diction Quotes
Collection of top 28 famous quotes about Diction
Diction Quotes & Sayings
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Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real.
— Brenda Rothert
Fact is richer than diction.
— J.L. Austin
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
— Moliere
As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.
— Lester Holt
A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.
— Rebecca McClanahan
But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
— Will.i.am
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
— Kanye West
Jyn shrugged, unable to feign a senator's diction any longer. "Rebellions are built on hope." "There
— Alexander Freed
For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.
— Jason Fuchs
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. — Carl Sandburg
Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.
See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. — Carl Sandburg
Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.
It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand. — Toba Beta
It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand. — Toba Beta
Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.
— James Agee
He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.
— Davis Bunn
Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.
— Harold Holzer
Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.
— Jeff Anderson
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
— John Rhys-Davies
Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.
— Lynn Emanuel
Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
— Peter De Vries
I like to try and mix diction and experiences.
— George Ezra
You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
— Paul Robeson
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
— Djimon Hounsou
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
— Marie Corelli
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb