It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes.… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
I would rather cuddle then have sex. If you are good with grammar you will get it. — Anonymous 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
I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
THEY'RE going THERE with THEIR friends. Seriously, it is not rocket science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
