Dialect Quotes

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 many dance languages.

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.