When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But… — David Dewhurst Copy Share Image
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible. — Karlie Kloss Copy Share Image
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish. — Fabricio Werdum Copy Share Image
I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in. — Ellie Kemper Copy Share Image
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound.… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
