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  • One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

    Truth   Regret   World  
    William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.284
  • Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them doing my dialogue in English. And it wasn't a matter of fluency.

    Actors   Matter   Fluency  
    "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.
  • As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

    Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.
  • Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

    Men   Kicking   Ladybugs  
  • I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

  • Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

    Toasts at the State Dinner for Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 6, 1989.
  • This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.

    "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.
  • The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

    Teacher   Latin   Despair  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin
  • Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.60
  • A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

    Men   Order   Grace  
    Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.335, Transaction Publishers
  • 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.

    Children   Reading   Gist  
  • I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched my capacity to abstract intellectually. The experience of being with workers, my encounters with management and my recognition of its foibles, my personal encounters with American industrial efficiency, my military experience - all of these things packaged together have greatly enriched my reading and my understanding, and I've written with what I hope is a reasonable fluency of style that is much more expressive than the academic stuff.

    Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.
  • Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

    Men   Kicking   Fluency  
  • Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service... I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

    President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.
  • At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

    Two   Silence   Would Be  
    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

    Art   Prayer   Keys  
  • Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

    FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Aug 11, 2014
  • If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.

    Moving   Schedules   Able  
    Source: collider.com
  • Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

    Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

    Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
  • Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life.

    Real   Heart   Men  
  • Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.

    Two   People   Cameras  
  • Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

  • She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.

    Sweet   Thinking   Wicked  
    Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing
  • Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

  • When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

  • Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation...Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.

    Real   Writing   Voice  
  • She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

    Tongue   Fluency   Mint  
    Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.350, Random House
  • Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.

    Biblical   Two   Greek  
    "Fox News must apologize to Reza Aslan". www.washingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.
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