Quotes About Fluently

#1. Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Hudson Taylor

#2. I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

Mandy Moore

#3. What comes out of a pure-hearted,
fluently written by an open-minded.

Toba Beta

#4. If one could read fluently, confidently, in every known language, one would have no need of translators or translations; one could read Homer on Mondays, Akhmatova on Tuesdays, Swahili poets on Wednesdays, and so on.

Abraham Verghese

#5. Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

Madeleine De Scudery

#6. I speak sarcasm fluently.

J.D. Robb

#7. I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

Alexa Chung

#8. Without thinking, Lillian let out a few curse words that caused Evie to blanch. One of Lillian's more questionable accomplishments was the ability to swear as fluently as a sailor, acquired from much time spent with her grandmother, who had worked as a washwoman at the harbor docks.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Fred Frith

#10. Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.

Jon Gnarr

#12. He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow

#13. The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.

Helmut Lang

#14. To express oneself fluently involves more than simply speaking the language properly. It includes inflection, voice, posture, gestures, and clothing. All of these elements add up to an individual's personal expression. They are the elements of style.

Kate Betts

#15. Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#17. Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

Yo-Yo Ma

#18. John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

Jay Leno

#19. Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

Vito Acconci

#20. I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.

Tyler Oakley

#21. So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

William James

#22. Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

H.P. Lovecraft

#23. Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

Lancelot Hogben

#25. But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

Elizabeth McCracken

#26. Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.

Calvin W. Allison

#27. Adorable. I had never seen grown women attack each other so fluently. No one tossed out adorable at Simone. No one declined Chef's tasting menu. And yet Simone wasn't stunned - she was braced. I realized that they were women who knew dangerous things about each other.

Stephanie Danler

#28. Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I'm your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don't you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good.

Rupi Kaur

#29. Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.

Hugh Mackay

#30. me over my jeans, her fingers squeezing firmly. Fuck. She's speaking my language fluently.

Cheryl McIntyre

#31. I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

Esha Gupta

#32. Nobody told all the new computer writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they're writing fluently doesn't mean they're writing well.

William Zinsser

#33. Shoveling food into his mouth. Thoughts came fluently, cogently:

Robert Galbraith

#34. Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages

Loretta Chase

#35. It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.

Olivia Sudjic

#36. In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Freeman Dyson

#37. Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

Edith Wharton

#38. I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Alan Kay

#39. I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Miguel

#40. I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

Michael Trevino

#41. True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,
or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some
can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale
and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.

Milissa R. Bailey

#42. People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

#43. Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

Christian De Duve

#44. I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

Noah Hathaway

#45. Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction to each successful picture to be as particular and unique as our verbal formulations.

Frank Gohlke

#46. I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

Eliot Paulina Sumner