“She was a little vulgar; sometimes she said “I seen” and “If I had’ve known.” But what would grammar matter if he… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational. — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
“The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“ Each other refers to two nouns; one another refers to three or more, a distinction that careful writers generally observe.” — Martha Kolln Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
“Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development,… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Grammar and spelling are a part of thought process. If one knows the meaning of words, one may be able to better… — Sienna McQuillen Copy Share Image
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through… — Anne Hull Copy Share Image
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Men are the best cooks. Because with two eggs, one sausage & a little bit of milk, he can fill a girl's… — Don Kel 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
If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a… — Alex Higgins Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“The rules of grammar are just as important as the rules of engagement in war. Without them, we are barbarians,” I argued.” — Shayne Silvers Copy Share Image
Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work… — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
