One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems… — Jim Goad 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
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on… — Richard Whately 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
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People who start a sentence with personally ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just… — John Madden Copy Share Image
I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel 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
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith 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
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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