One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong,… — Peter Farb 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
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
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
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
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
I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway 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
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
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
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early… — Mary O'Neill Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So… — Positive K Copy Share Image
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
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