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
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
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
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early… — Mary O'Neill Copy Share Image
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
Grammar is important! Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your Uncle jack off a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
Nothing better than a reality show where everyone's speaking English yet they still need subtitles to be understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
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