When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I wish those red, squiggly spellcheck lines would show up when some people talk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Hey autocorrect, stop messing with my damn curse words. You mother forklift. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I struggled a lot with English, with grammar. You write what you hear. Deaf people have to remember it and spell things… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say. — Nils Parker Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Growing up with well-educated parents and an older sister with her Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature, I was left with… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.” — Arthur Plotnick Copy Share Image
Money doesnt grow on trees but it speaks beautifully without grammar. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence. — Mignon Fogarty Copy Share Image
“Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.” — Frank Black Copy Share Image
I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.” — Martha Brockenbrough Copy Share Image
