Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!” — Steven Magee 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
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
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
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
“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
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. — Anthony Marra 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
