Top 638 Articulate Quotes & Sayings

If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way.

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I don't really know how to articulate it to people directly - my friends, my family, or my girlfriend - then I'll write a song about it because I know I can articulate it that way.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic.

I'm not the most articulate person.

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl.

The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.

If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a little cross in a ballot box, etc, does not represent your view. It is an act of desperation.

In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived. If you can't articulate ideas and if you can't articulate critiques of other peoples' ideas, then you're powerless. What always increases the power of an authoritarian regime is whether it can successfully prevent people from expressing themselves.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

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

I'm not as articulate as I'd wanna be.

I'm really articulate when I do my thing - when I speak on the mic, when I do interviews. I'm a colorful personality.

The world belongs to the articulate.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

Even silence is so articulate at times.

Art can articulate new ideas.

Oh, man, really, from the moment I could articulate, I was all about music.

It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

'F - k you' is not really the best way to articulate how you feel.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

It's hard for me to articulate myself.

I can't begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

I'm not very articulate.

I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here.

Apologized for saying Barack Obama was clean and articulate.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So he said how astonished he was that Sidney Poitier, with whom he'd just taped an interview, had been so articulate.

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.