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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. -- Edith Wharton
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. -- Paul Wellstone
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. -- Jessica Savitch
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. -- Agnes Smedley
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. -- Joan Didion
Music is inarticulate poesy. -- John Dryden
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. -- William James
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Dan Quayle
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Dan Quayle
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. -- Helen Levitt
I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. -- Spike Jonze
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. -- William Golding
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. -- Virginia Woolf
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth. -- Plutarch
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. -- Ambrose Bierce
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. -- Al Jourgensen
Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. -- T. S. Eliot
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. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper. -- Oswald Chambers
It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing. -- David Horsey
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. -- Rudyard Kipling
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. -- Christopher Hitchens
I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Dan Quayle
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. -- Graham Swift
All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them. -- Richard Eyre
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. -- Alice Walker
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. -- Stephen King
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. -- Lord Byron
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. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. -- Henry Anatole Grunwald
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible. -- Thomas Carlyle
Violence is the language of the inarticulate. -- Aussiescribbler
Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged. -- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods. -- James Elkins
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud. -- Eoin Colfer
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. -- Thomas Carlyle
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. -- William Trevor
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. -- Richard Wagner
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite. -- Alain de Botton
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. -- Walther von der Vogelweide
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. -- Victor Hugo
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. -- Kenneth Tynan
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. -- Elizabeth Janeway
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. -- Virginia Woolf
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick. -- Jonathan Tropper
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 -- Mary Baker Eddy
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it. -- Eileen Myles
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. -- Walter J. Phillips
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds. -- Jamake Highwater
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Nick Laird
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message. -- Vernon Lee
The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb. -- Richard Hofstadter
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. -- Eddie Marsan

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