...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.” — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
Don't matter which language u speak money a the universal Grammar $$$$$$ — Vybz Kartel Copy Share Image
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know. — John Grant Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked… — Valee Copy Share Image
“I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.” — Keith Waterhouse 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
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school,… — Shanice Williams Copy Share Image
The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for… — John Key Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Training is not just about opening your mouth and speaking about the topic. More than sharing what you know and showcasing your… — Myron Sta Ana Copy Share Image
Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“What the hell was it about e-mail that made everybody forget the stuff they learned in second grade, like capitalizing I and… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels 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
“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image