She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against…

“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages. "I…

— David Sedaris

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

— Paul O'Grady

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was…

— Amitabh Bachchan

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras,…

— Aravind Adiga

For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are…

— Doreen Massey

The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic…

— D. A. Carson

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the…

— Eugene Ionesco

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't…

— John Towner Williams

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will…

— Frederic Raphael

“Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.”

— John Lennard

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism…

— Homi K. Bhabha

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

— Etgar Keret

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

— Toni Morrison

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

— William Trevor