And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — 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
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express… — Henry David Thoreau 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
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I should be better with my grammar and set a better example for my kids. Just not sure that ain't gonna happen. — Chris Harrison 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
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only… — Charles James Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“That Grace looked annoyed at me. "I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So… — Positive K Copy Share Image
I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I'm obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe.… — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Adding 'and shit' to the end of any sentence makes it sound cooler and shit.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. — Fulton J. Sheen 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
