Quotes About Southern Dialect

#1. The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Audra McDonald

#2. Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

Bellamy Young

#4. La Inca shook her head. She was looking at her favorite picture of his mother on her first day at private school, one of those typical serious DR shots. What always happens. Un maldito hombre.

Junot Diaz

#5. I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

Michel Martelly

#6. I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

Kim Dickens

#7. Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Thomas Friedman

#10. Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect.
On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and a
language system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I'm a Southern woman.

Patricia H. Graham

#11. It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

Orrin Woodward

#12. Exchange between Leon and Max:
"I just want you to tell me you love me sometimes."
"Yes, you see I can't do that." He turned his head away. "I love you all the time.

Jodi Taylor