#north america

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #america #american #any #continental

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#agent #agents #america #best #book

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#america #hotels #i #management #north

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#continue #enjoy #firearms #focus #handled

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#basis #being #canadian #comedy #compare

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#america #both #critical #economies #energy

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#attack #attacks #authorities #because #catastrophic

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#because #beef #canada #demand #eat

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#american culture #culture #experience #high #high school