The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates,… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth… — Cory Michael Smith 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
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 find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my… — Jasper Fforde 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
Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt 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 college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
“Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use… — Glenn Quinn Copy Share Image
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's… — Luke Pasqualino 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
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 grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to… — David Finkelstein Copy Share Image
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… — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them… — Eric Kandel 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
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
Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
