Dialect Quotes

72 quotes by 66 authors

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call… — Flannery O'Connor
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney
When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I… — Glenn Quinn
Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic… — Gael Garcia Bernal
"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect." — Harry Reid
(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as… — Harry Reid
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling
America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. — David Finkelstein
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit… — Branford Marsalis
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects. — David Crystal
Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and… — Ambrose Bierce
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep… — Archie Panjabi
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character… — Steven Pinker
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in… — David Tang

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