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 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
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
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
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 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
I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing 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
I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to… — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There… — Archie Panjabi 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
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
My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to… — Teresa Bloomingdale 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
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
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages,… — Judith Lynne Hanna 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
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
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 went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
I am grateful that the people of Telangana supported me when I spoke in the Andhra accent, just as much as the… — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American… — Audra McDonald 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
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in… — Marion Cotillard 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