Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to… — Cher Copy Share Image
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I… — Sterling Knight Copy Share Image
“It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even… — Cara Lynn Shultz Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor.… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and… — Christopher Moore 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
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Dear People of The World, I don't mean to sound slutty but use me whenever you want. Sincerely, Proper Grammar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather cuddle then have sex. If you are good with grammar you will get it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Whenever someone spells something wrong, I always look to see if the two letters are close on the keyboard. — Ronald Oliver Copy Share Image
In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week. — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
