Fluent Quotes

Fluent Quote of the day

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 some guide for a fluent reading.

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

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

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.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

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

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.

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.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

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.

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 you are good at.

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

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 use of the relevant language.

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

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

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.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

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 count up to three.

I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

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

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

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.

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.

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.

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

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

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?

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.

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

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

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.

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

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

Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind

Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")