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
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea,… — Joan Halifax 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
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon 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
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
“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
I wish those red, squiggly spellcheck lines would show up when some people talk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris 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
Hey autocorrect, stop messing with my damn curse words. You mother forklift. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute 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
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall 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
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
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
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