A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name… One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
I don't understand how shows are made and what is the grammar or formula behind making them successful or unsuccessful. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.” — Shawna Yang Ryan Copy Share Image
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Its interesting to see how want to has become wanna, going to has become gonna, because has become cuz, going has become… — Guardian/Hommie G Copy Share Image
“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems… — Jim Goad 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
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
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
“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild 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
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith’s for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson 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
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
“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
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