“Let grammar rule the man who doesn’t know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band.… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce 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
“The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges… — Geoffrey Pullum Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which… — John Hume Copy Share Image
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
“In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes.… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar… — Nicolas Provost Copy Share Image
english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Oh, fine,' Ken said. He took the piece of yellow paper and flipped it over and wrote: 'Dear Mr. Reed, I'm sorry… — Paul Schmidtberger Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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