Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in… — John Galt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I… — Robin Atkin Downes Copy Share Image
I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
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.… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one. — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
