If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Grammar.The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them. — Toni Basil Copy Share Image
People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life. — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne 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
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Somehow, when I wasn't looking, somehow because it's electronic mail, none of the basic grammar rules applied.” — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon 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
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, “grammar.” And” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen.… — Nicolas Provost Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Like so many other grammar schools that flourished in Britain before they were abolished through a mix of ideology and political folly,… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.” — Sharon Green 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
Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should… — R.L. Trask Copy Share Image
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling… — Miriam Copy Share Image
These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome!… — Terence McKenna 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
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
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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