Informal Speech Quotes

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

I was always on my oddy knocky.

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

I am a bit of a Valley girl, so I say 'you know' and 'like' too much.

There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.

Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.

So many rings, my fingers starting to hizzurt. If you didnt know me you did swear I had that wizzork.. and I am from Pittsburgh.

In New York, f*** isn't even a word. It's a comma.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it