I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.” — Frank Black Copy Share Image
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
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should… — R.L. Trask Copy Share Image
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling… — Miriam Copy Share Image
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome!… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early… — Mary O'Neill Copy Share Image
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great… — Roger Ascham 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
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
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 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
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock 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
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