Top 100 Fluent Quotes

#1. If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

Benny Lewis

Fluent Quotes #28830
#2. I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest
'Rachel Abercrombie.'
A lie, Savich thought.

Catherine Coulter

Fluent Quotes #36936
#3. There is a risk of becoming linguistically schizophrenic. Because your brain is so fluent in both languages, it is fooled into thinking that the structure you have put together in the target language is correct merely because it is correct in the source language.

Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown

Fluent Quotes #38375
#4. 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 to a free and fluent universe of spiritual belonging.

John O'Donohue

Fluent Quotes #49742
#5. We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Buck Henry

Fluent Quotes #54114
#6. The city's legions of working men disagreed. They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, "Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare.

Erik Larson

Fluent Quotes #63068
#7. I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

Alan Lightman

Fluent Quotes #105677
#8. True love was a language, so many looks, touches and one word references that told the other more than full sentences of paragraphs, more than full outpourings of speech.
Our language was extensive and beautiful, and over a joyful lifetime together, we stayed fluent in it.

R.K. Lilley

Fluent Quotes #123011
#9. Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Luis Fortuno

Fluent Quotes #160422
#10. Our mouths were fluent in the language of each other and we moved with one mind and shared the same breath.

Michelle Hodkin

Fluent Quotes #167048
#11. I don't speak fluent bumpkin...

Patrick Rothfuss

Fluent Quotes #174789
#12. 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, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Nick Hornby

Fluent Quotes #177804
#13. The brevity of mini (psycho)therapies is another efficient forestaller of healing. The neocortex rapidly master didactic information, but the limbic brain takes mountains of repetition. No one expects to play the flute in six lessons or to become fluent in Italian in ten. (189)

Thomas Lewis

Fluent Quotes #188692
#14. Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind

Munia Khan

Fluent Quotes #190847
#15. He wants to know why my marks aren't better. Why I don't speak fluent French. Why I can't kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.

Gail Carriger

Fluent Quotes #210884
#16. I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

Fluent Quotes #227314
#17. I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

Zoe Saldana

Fluent Quotes #265621
#18. Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Julia Glass

Fluent Quotes #274423
#19. I'm sorry, what did you say? I'm not fluent in stupid drunk slut

Christine Zolendz

Fluent Quotes #296832
#20. Fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.

Guy Deutscher

Fluent Quotes #298365
#21. Stop your bitching, Nick. You should try being an immortal demon who's lived since the dawn of time having to sit through this crap when English is not my native tongue, and if you think you're fluent in it, buddy, I actually know what a gerund is.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fluent Quotes #308889
#22. John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

Alissa York

Fluent Quotes #313721
#23. I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.

Ksenia Solo

Fluent Quotes #326135
#24. Yeah, because off the ice the only language Stephanie speaks is fluent Bitch.

Jennifer Comeaux

Fluent Quotes #350463
#25. The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

Igor Babailov

Fluent Quotes #358037
#26. A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

Joseph Joubert

Fluent Quotes #384388
#27. When it comes to languages, I'm passably fluent in HTML.

Bernie Su

Fluent Quotes #402096
#28. 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 what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

Ally Carter

Fluent Quotes #415228
#29. 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 to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

Jamie Oliver

Fluent Quotes #418880
#30. Want to write? Read. Want to write well? Read 3000 pages, and write 1000. At the end, you will be fluent in a style, or know you never can be.

Richard Wyndbourne

Fluent Quotes #419876
#31. Seriously, what is the purpose? Maybe I'd feel better about walking around speaking fluent jive if I knew there was a reason for it.

Elle Lothlorien

Fluent Quotes #437859
#32. Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Aleksandar Hemon

Fluent Quotes #451140
#33. He was fluent in nineteen modern languages, five ancient languages and the one true universal language - pain.

Tiffany Reisz

Fluent Quotes #470217
#34. I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

Danica McKellar

Fluent Quotes #471666
#35. A commanding woman versed in politics, diplomacy, and governance; fluent in nine languages; silver-tongued and charismatic, Cleopatra nonetheless seems the joint creation of Roman propagandists and Hollywood directors.

Stacy Schiff

Fluent Quotes #475862
#36. Paris was all so ... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

David Nicholls

Fluent Quotes #500358
#37. I'm Artistry through Fluent and Flowing Poetry in Motion and I'm Letting it Flow.....

De Ann "Native" Townes Jr.

Fluent Quotes #502008
#38. Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

Jennifer Calvert

Fluent Quotes #567125
#39. The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

William Hazlitt

Fluent Quotes #567204
#40. Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.

Brandi L. Bates

Fluent Quotes #571713
#41. It may be that the ignorant man, alone,
Has any chance to mate his life with life
That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life
That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

Wallace Stevens

Fluent Quotes #574843
#42. I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Natalie Portman

Fluent Quotes #582927
#43. I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

William Gibson

Fluent Quotes #595431
#44. You're not a true fan if you only like the Marvel movies; you can't be in the anime community unless you speak fluent Japanese; you're not allowed to dress up as Ms. Marvel unless you've read every Ms. Marvel comic, ever.

Sam Maggs

Fluent Quotes #650182
#45. After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

Jamie Ford

Fluent Quotes #653916
#46. Poor Excuses for Men {Couplet}
Every now and then good ink flows fluent from my playful pen,
Causing jealous minds to moulder in these poor excuses for men.

Beryl Dov

Fluent Quotes #657289
#47. You are a language I am no longer fluent in
but still remember how to read.

Ashe Vernon

Fluent Quotes #695961
#48. 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 of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Fluent Quotes #705196
#49. Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Paul Theroux

Fluent Quotes #713773
#50. 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 years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

Dani Shapiro

Fluent Quotes #734144
#51. That was a tall order for Ivy. Sarcasm was kind of her native tongue, though she was fluent in "stern disappointment" and "light condescension" as well. She was also a good friend. Well, imaginary friend.

Brandon Sanderson

Fluent Quotes #735399
#52. We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again

Morgan Matson

Fluent Quotes #742375
#53. I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Juliana Hatfield

Fluent Quotes #743522
#54. The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

Mike Breen

Fluent Quotes #750488
#55. I spoke his language; I was fluent in shy.

C.L.Stone

Fluent Quotes #751835
#56. As the brain and body were shaped by natural selection, consumer goods adapted to the mind through a parallel process of product selection, which has rendered them ever more fluent, expressive, and fascinating to our senses.

David B. Givens

Fluent Quotes #853173
#57. All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?).

John Lanchester

Fluent Quotes #877497
#58. Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Thanhha Lai

Fluent Quotes #879291
#59. I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

Kevin Nealon

Fluent Quotes #889224
#60. It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Fluent Quotes #910389
#61. She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Fluent Quotes #927682
#62. Her hope was to embarrass me. Little does she know, I'm fluent in Asshole.

S.L. Jennings

Fluent Quotes #941782
#63. Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

David Letterman

Fluent Quotes #959956
#64. Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

Thomm Quackenbush

Fluent Quotes #964416
#65. She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Anthony Marra

Fluent Quotes #966892
#66. The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The

John O'Donohue

Fluent Quotes #971031
#67. UGH. Boys. They're like French class
no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

Jen Calonita

Fluent Quotes #1000255
#68. fluent in being human." "In

Chelsea M. Campbell

Fluent Quotes #1003390
#69. I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

Will Ferrell

Fluent Quotes #1007546
#70. I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

Polly Walker

Fluent Quotes #1034101
#71. The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Ellen Glasgow

Fluent Quotes #1043333
#72. 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 light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

Max Beerbohm

Fluent Quotes #1051441
#73. 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

Fluent Quotes #1052256
#74. When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

David Dewhurst

Fluent Quotes #1063587
#75. [ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.

Tom McCarthy

Fluent Quotes #1071878
#76. With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Fluent Quotes #1128812
#77. 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 tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

Paula Fox

Fluent Quotes #1148010
#78. I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

Karlie Kloss

Fluent Quotes #1152096
#79. 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 culture.

Mark Bauerlein

Fluent Quotes #1168298
#80. Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

John Cage

Fluent Quotes #1186899
#81. I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Max Von Sydow

Fluent Quotes #1199083
#82. I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and ... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

Cote De Pablo

Fluent Quotes #1219248
#83. I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

Sundra Oakley

Fluent Quotes #1219407
#84. I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.

Laurie Graham

Fluent Quotes #1247473
#85. I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

Luis Fortuno

Fluent Quotes #1279989
#86. When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?'
when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fluent Quotes #1284206
#87. Okay, I'd had a variety of Rock Chick chinwags where the girls let it all hang out about their guys and how they communicated in Asshole, but I'd never experienced it personally. And Ren had just demonstrated he was fluent in Asshole.
It must be said, I didn't like it much.

Kristen Ashley

Fluent Quotes #1298234
#88. Aspirin? I asked. It came out sounding a lot like ass spoon, but Zayvion seemed fluent in mumbleze.

Devon Monk

Fluent Quotes #1325235
#89. My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Fluent Quotes #1328143
#90. New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English.

David Letterman

Fluent Quotes #1340994
#91. I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

Muriel Rukeyser

Fluent Quotes #1343351
#92. I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Aravind Adiga

Fluent Quotes #1345080
#93. Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is the romantic. He is here.

Virginia Woolf

Fluent Quotes #1394624
#94. The answer was straightforward: instances of the class will be retrieved from memory, and if retrieval is easy and fluent, the category will be judged to be large. We defined the availability heuristic as the process of judging frequency by the ease with which instances come to mind.

Daniel Kahneman

Fluent Quotes #1398089
#95. So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.

R. Arnold

Fluent Quotes #1417227
#96. 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 a brain surgeon.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Fluent Quotes #1456060
#97. During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Fluent Quotes #1460412
#98. That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

H.L. Mencken

Fluent Quotes #1479659
#99. The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

Richard Blackmore

Fluent Quotes #1491838
#100. A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fluent Quotes #1497088

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