I was very adept at acquiring languages.

- Anna Held

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

- David Mitchell

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

- David Horsey

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

- Ian Hart

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

- Ian Mcewan

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

- Rashida Jones

Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too.

- Rebecca Traister

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.

- Stephen Rodrick

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

- Terry Teachout

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

- Todd Gitlin