Ability Quote by Evan Esar

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

— Amy Cuddy

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

— Johnny Flynn

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write…

— Mitchel Resnick

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

— Salman Rushdie

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you…

— Larry Wall

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

— Alexandre Dumas

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

— Anonymous

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

— Charles Baudelaire

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in…

— Hermann Hesse

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

— Dale Carnegie

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

— Gautama Buddha