Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in… — Gary Numan 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
I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl von Frisch Copy Share Image
When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
