Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard. — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular. — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny. — Keith Jackson Copy Share Image
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas. — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone. — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they've redefined the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
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