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  • He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

    Men   Texas   Proud  
  • My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

    Running   People   Forget  
    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 04, 2011
  • What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  • Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

    Mouths   Speech   Pebbles  
    "Parallel Lives". "Life of Demosthenes" by Plutarch,
  • The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

    Romance   Soul   Half  
  • Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

  • The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

  • I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

    Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage
  • Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

    Garden   Sky   Blue  
    'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
  • It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

    Errors   Voice   Forever  
    Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.122, Jazzybee Verlag
  • There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

    "Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms". 1982.
  • You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko could have said so much more. How much her expression, her gentle manner, her pure untainted soul meant to him. How important, in short, her existence was to him. But he wasn't able to put into words. He was only a third-year student in junior high, and worst yet, composition was one of his worst subjects.

  • Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

    Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.100, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

    Love Is   Men   Self  
    Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”
  • . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

    Love   Flower   Animal  
    Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”
  • He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

    Winter   Night   Light  
    Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.97, Booklassic
  • Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

    Quiet   Dogma   Sometimes  
    Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
  • Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

    People   Cameras   Groups  
    Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
  • The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

    Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.77, Vintage
  • I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.

    War   Fighting   Men  
  • Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

    East Coker (1940) pt. 5
  • They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.

  • [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

    Men   Voting   Principles  
  • People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

  • I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

    Feet   Long   Broken  
    Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.176, Virginia Woolf
  • Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

    Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”
  • He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

    Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2192, Delphi Classics
  • Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

    Song   Heart   Blue  
    'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
  • Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

    Heart   Thinking   Speech  
  • It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

    Play   Suffering   Actors  
    Source: collider.com
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