I can't stand people that don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're.' Their so stupid... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
People who start a sentence with personally ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Someday's I wish I had a crappy education so your grammar wouldn't bother me so much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the… — Tony Orlando Copy Share Image
From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.” — Kitty Burns Florey 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
I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any… — James Frey 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 word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired… — Salomon Bochner 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
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and… — Robert Orben 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
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike Copy Share Image
![“I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.” quote by James Frey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/james-frey-1108_attribution_i-don-t-speak-with-proper-grammar-i-don_1674684.png)
![“[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/anonymous-1_bird_on-going-to-sunday-school-it-looks-like_1362138.jpg)
![“... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic…” quote by Andrew Elfenbein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/andrew-elfenbein-61722_closed-mind_in-pride-and-prejudice-mr-collins-s-repu_2489107.jpg)
