...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know grammar but I do know that I love playing games on my phone. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Adding 'and shit' to the end of any sentence makes it sound cooler and shit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The word ‘God’ is a part of language and its grammar. Even if the whole world turns atheist tomorrow, the incredible arrangement… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries… — 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
“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
Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking… — Rude Jude Copy Share Image
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In ways that certain of us are uncomfortable about, SNOOTs’ attitudes about contemporary usage resemble religious/political conservatives’ attitudes about contemporary culture. We… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image