Fluency quotes

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
-- Anthony Marra

#Tongue #Fluency #Mint
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.
-- David Antin

#Growing Up #Fluency #Language
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Happiness #Fluency #Merit
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophical #Fluency #Admiration
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
-- Xunzi

#Mind #Tongue #Fluency

A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.
If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.
Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)
As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.
Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today; I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.
I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.
The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.
I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.