Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Digital fluency... is literally your ability to do things like banking online, to connect with people, to use a device and the… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“don’t know about you, but my English isn’t perfect. I hesitate when I’m nervous, I forget precisely the right word every now… — Benny Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.” — 2000 National Reading Panel Copy Share Image
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Good readers may struggle with a difficult text, but struggle is not the goal of reading. The goal is fluency. Meaning flows… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“verbal fluency and sociability are the two most important predictors of success, according to a Stanford Business School study.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored,… — David Antin Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
“Fluency CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. *author’s note – This is an amazingly blunt statement as well as an… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image