Dialect Quotes

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In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami
I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure… — Billy Bob Thornton
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. — Thomas Hardy
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. — Doris Lessing
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. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts… — Seth MacFarlane
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from… — Thomas B. Macaulay
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 where I come… — Brad Pitt
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. — Liev Schreiber
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted… — Walt Whitman
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal -… — E. O. Wilson
It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler… — David Sedaris
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? — Jodi Picoult
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what… — Jasper Fforde
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -… — David Foster Wallace
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to… — Catherynne M. Valente
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are… — George Orwell
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped… — Mark Twain
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that… — Judith Lynne Hanna

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