Patois Quotes

#1. I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#2. You've flown with us for twenty-five years, you like us, you've learned the patois. I bet you can order a beer and a hooker on any station in the Belt.

James S.A. Corey

#3. Life mash, Lucia has said, when Eva told her Christopher had gone to war. Eva had asked her what it meant, and Lucia explained it was a patois expression, meaning everything was messed up and broken. Mean life was cruel.

Susan Lanigan

#4. They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.

Lilly Singh

#6. My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Sean Paul

#7. Tony's patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. "Sho 'nuff," he said.

Robert B. Parker

#8. he never spoke save in the debased patois of his environment;

H.P. Lovecraft

#9. Speed kills colour ... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Paul Morand

#10. Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.

John C. Maxwell

#11. Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

W. Edwards Deming

#12. a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking'.

Mallanaga Vatsyayana

#13. What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.

Horace

#14. Well, then, for what my opinion is worth, I'm sure you'll be an excellent father and husband. And since you don't believe in those things, you'll never take them for granted.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back ...
The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time ...

Nalo Hopkinson

#16. Nothing has a more profound and long-term degrading effect upon a development project than bad code. Bad schedules can be redone, bad requirements can be redefined. Bad team dynamics can be repaired. But bad code rots and ferments, becoming an inexorable weight that drags the team down.

Robert C. Martin

#17. I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Dan Gelber