The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.