“ To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use o… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard languag… Rosina Lippi-Green
“ 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” ) Erik Pevernagie
“ The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I th… Rainbow Rowell
“ In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is o… Petina Gappah
“ The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an a… Criss Jami
“ 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'. Anne Enright
