The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
“I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.” — Sophie Morgan Copy Share Image
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. — Mary Jane Holmes Copy Share Image
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She whispers in my ear: ‘"Tell me that you wan' fuck me hard, make me sweat." In the excitement, she misses out… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
“It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking… — Abbe Diaz Copy Share Image
With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
“Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most ‘fluent’ in… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There’s a rumor it seems involving the finance minister. He’s supposed to resign any time now,” she said. “Some kind of scandal… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the… — Jimenez Lai 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
“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
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