#alec

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#father #had #house #known #me

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

#southern-culture #family

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capital #dialectic #economic #enterprise #great

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes. ↗

— Mike Myers

#actor #alec #christopher #comedic #dan

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. ↗

— Don Nickles

#future #great #great organization #growing #i

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct. ↗

— Don Nickles

#correct #i #jim #member #mentioned

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#come #comfortable #dialects #easy #example

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#dialectic #disorder #identity #movement #narrative

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#demands #dialectic #event #interpreted #meaning