Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
Nothing better than a reality show where everyone's speaking English yet they still need subtitles to be understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So… — Positive K Copy Share Image
I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Do you type differently depending on the person youre talking to. My grammar goes from formal essay to wat the flurck did… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I don't understand how shows are made and what is the grammar or formula behind making them successful or unsuccessful. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name… One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and… — Nelly Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Dear EGNSLIH TECAEHR As lnog as the fsrit & lsat lteter r in the smae palce, u can siltl raed tihs. Sincerely… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when… — Ricky Whittle Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Grammar is important! Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your Uncle jack off a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
“The rules of grammar are just as important as the rules of engagement in war. Without them, we are barbarians,” I argued.” — Shayne Silvers Copy Share Image
Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work… — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
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