Fluent Quotes

76 quotes by 74 authors

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. — Natalie Portman
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. — Zoe Saldana
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall… — Matt Taibbi
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. — Paul Theroux
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her… — Amy Hempel
You donâ€™t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant… — Dorothy Parker
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this. — John Cage
Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea… — Ally Carter
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things,… — Nick Hornby
I don't speak fluent bumpkin... — Patrick Rothfuss
â€¦always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese,… — Adeline Yen Mah
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one… — Laurell K. Hamilton
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand. — Jamie Ford
TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned… — Kate Brian
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most… — Augusten Burroughs
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her… — George Steiner
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen… — Dani Shapiro

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