If you think of music as a universal language, it still…

Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects…

— Jia Zhangke

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles…

— Lake Bell

From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is…

— John Galt

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've…

— Scarlett Johansson

I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate…

— Robin Atkin Downes

I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also very different,…

— Sayani Gupta

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English…

— Anonymous

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people…

— Virginia Heffernan

“A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.”

— Max Weinreich

There's a big difference between when I'm Tom and when I'm Conchita. Conchita uses very proper German; Tom talks in an Austrian dialect. Conchita…

— Conchita Wurst

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the…

— Andrew Scott

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode…

— Seth MacFarlane

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact…

— David Foster Wallace

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan