A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. — Joseph Jacobs 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
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'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
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
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the… — Walt Whitman 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
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches.… — Forest Whitaker 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
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong 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
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's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley 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
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image