My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a… — Alex Higgins 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
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My wife saw a mug somewhere that says, 'I'm silently correcting your grammar.' I think that is perfect thing for me. — Harry Hadden-Paton Copy Share Image
Men are the best cooks. Because with two eggs, one sausage & a little bit of milk, he can fill a girl's… — Don Kel Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky 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
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?… — Terry Jones 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
“... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
“But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith’s for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow 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
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, "Hopefully, go find a guy who… — John Green Copy Share Image
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
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
Its interesting to see how want to has become wanna, going to has become gonna, because has become cuz, going has become… — Guardian/Hommie G Copy Share Image
“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view:… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
![“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.” quote by Johnny Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83c/johnny-griffin-65875_band_my-grammar-school-graduating-class-in-19_1845972.jpg)
![“Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.” quote by Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c5/nathan-rothschild-1st-baron-ro_being-thankful_mr-robert-montgomery-s-genius-is-far-too_965475.jpg)
