Grammar Quotes · Page 24

What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the…

— Nicholas G. Carr

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

There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think…

— Kevin Drew

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen.…

— Nicolas Provost

“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning "combustible" is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by…

— E.B. White

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin,…

— Bill Bryson

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave…

— Andrew Neil

Before. b-e-f-o-r-e, not B4. We speak English. Not bingo.

— Anonymous

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

— Jennifer Crusie

All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable…

— Bob Hawke

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

— Adi Shankara

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard,…

— Adrienne Rich

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

— Kurt Vonnegut