#fluent

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#art #bigger #contemporary #contemporary art #how

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

— Zoe Saldana

#fluent #french #i #i am #italian

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#fluent #her #like #mother #only

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

— Paul Theroux

#conversation #could #decent #fairly #fluent

I speak French fluently, so that really helped. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#french #helped #i #really #speak

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american people #argument #being #comfortable