Fluency Quotes

“It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.”

“It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.”

“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”

“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind”

“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.”

“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”

“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.”

“This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.”

“To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.[From the preface to Leaves Grass]”

“When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.”