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Tag Name "Eloquent" (130)

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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
Sophocles
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When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Meg Ryan
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Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.
Saadi
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Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
Louis Leakey
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
Albert Camus
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I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized poised at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.
Julius Hemphill
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Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.
Peter Behrens
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The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
Baruch Spinoza
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Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
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Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
Horace
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I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.
Domenico Gnoli
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Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
Martial
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Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
Ovid
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
Albert Camus
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It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.
Charlaine Harris
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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.
Oleta Adams
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
George Santayana
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I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
El-P
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Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.
David W. Orr
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Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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