Vernacular Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' — Dave Chappelle
The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be… — Matt LeBlanc
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes… — Bob Dylan
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether… — Pope John XXIII
What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal… — Pete La Roca
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great… — Pete La Roca
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret… — Louis Sullivan
I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did… — Michael Nyman
Iâ€™m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for… — Martin Puryear
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual… — Walter Crane
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in… — Robert Frost
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is… — Carlisle Floyd
I read Norman Lockâ€™sÂ The Boy in His WinterÂ with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true… — David Oshinsky
Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a… — Charles McGrath
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more… — William Labov
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which… — Michael Tilson Thomas
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and… — William Labov
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin

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