Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools. — Hugh Gaitskell Copy Share Image
Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.” — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls. — Nadine Coyle Copy Share Image
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the… — Tony Orlando Copy Share Image
My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.” — Kitty Burns Florey Copy Share Image
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
![“All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable and why I would support him in this is that he has an absolutely impeccable record on the question of colour and race. People often wondered why. What I see as a possible…” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/802/bob-hawke-7891_argument_all-the-arguments-there-are-against-malc_3209159.jpg)
