I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which… — John Hume Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band.… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So… — Positive K Copy Share Image
I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to… — Adam Reed 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
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore 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
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.” — Shawna Yang Ryan Copy Share Image
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Do you type differently depending on the person youre talking to. My grammar goes from formal essay to wat the flurck did… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I don't understand how shows are made and what is the grammar or formula behind making them successful or unsuccessful. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name… One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Dear EGNSLIH TECAEHR As lnog as the fsrit & lsat lteter r in the smae palce, u can siltl raed tihs. Sincerely… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and… — Nelly 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
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
“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image