Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know. — John Grant Copy Share Image
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Don't matter which language u speak money a the universal Grammar $$$$$$ — Vybz Kartel Copy Share Image
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Why no s for two deer, but an s for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules!… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I am well aware, the grammar are not perfect in my quotes,which I had to leave my studies are incomplete but I'm… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
So alarming watching a movie based on a book, and realizing I had been mispronouncing a main characters names wrong in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
“The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old.… — KAWS Copy Share Image
I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The… — William Safire Copy Share Image