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  • …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

    Hurt   Pain   Comforting  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.147, Gideon House Books
  • There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.

  • 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.

    Grief   Light   Hypocrisy  
    Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.71, 1st World Publishing
  • 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.

    Memories   Mind   Doe  
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175
  • The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

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

    "The Real Gwyneth". Interview with Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.
  • When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

  • A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

    Sweet   Real   Food  
    Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press
  • John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

    Pages   Samson   Fluent  
  • I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

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

  • I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.

    Mother   Baby   Grief  
    Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Life   Ideas   Age  
  • We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

    Paint   Brushes   Fluent  
  • 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.

    Reality   Three   France  
  • 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 (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.25, Vintage
  • 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  
  • And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.151, Macmillan
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

    Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby
  • By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

    Wall   Creating   People  
    "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.
  • Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

    Children   Parent   Want  
    "As GOP Races On, Puerto Rico Could Be Battleground". www.npr.org. February 28, 2012.
  • 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.

    Life   Men   Ignorant  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.231, Vintage
  • 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.

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

    Art   Helping   Fluent  
    John Cage (1970). “John Cage”
  • I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

    Laughter   Gay   Air  
    Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage
  • You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.

    Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.151, Laurel Leaf
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