Country Quote by Ethan Coen

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only English was…

— Fela Kuti

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he…

— Nicolas Cage

I find 'True Grit' to be one of the very best American novels: It is a rousing adventure story and deeply perceptive about the…

— George Pelecanos

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

— James Frank

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon…

— Stephanie Mills

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

— Emile M. Cioran

I loved 'Goodbye to Language.'

— Richard Linklater

“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

— Caroline Lawrence

“For a group of nationalist intellectuals much later in history to have sat down and decided that Dante’s Italian would now be the official…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

— Brenda Lee