Fluent Quotes

76 quotes by 74 authors

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be… — Billie Joe Armstrong
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. — Charles Clark
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide… — Marie Clay
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what… — Viswanathan Anand
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. — Buck Henry
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that… — Melissa Fay Greene
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in… — John O'Donohue
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. — Thanhha Lai
Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth… — Mark Bauerlein
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even… — Gregoire Akcelrod
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced… — Thomas A. Edison
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great… — Pete La Roca
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words… — James Lovelock
The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush. — Igor Babailov
Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need… — Jamie Oliver
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin.… — John Daniel
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze,… — John Daniel

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