Fluency Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats… — Henry Miller
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would… — Nicole Krauss
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. — Anthony Marra
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall… — Walt Whitman
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit. — Edwin Percy Whipple
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say… — Ivan Illich
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the… — Reza Aslan
Walt Whitman's poem, This Is What You Shall Do is another one that helps me burn bgithrer This is what you shall doby Walt Whitman… — Adam
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up… — Walt Whitman

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