Grammar Quotes · Page 8

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

— Frederick Buechner

Saying, 'Shut up no one likes you!' when someone corrects you.

— Anonymous

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

— Mary Jane Holmes

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

— Robert Graves

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

— Carl Sandburg

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

— Paul Nurse

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

— Carlo Grante

“I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.”

— Sophie Morgan

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable…

— J.R. Ward

“The word ‘God’ is a part of language and its grammar. Even if the whole world turns atheist tomorrow, the incredible arrangement…

— Abhaidev

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them…

— Thomas Paine

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

...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

I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted…

— Tara Westover

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

— Terry Pratchett

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we…

— Helen Mirren

“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning "combustible" is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by…

— E.B. White

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a…

— Noam Chomsky

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet…

— Terry Pratchett

“It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking…

— Abbe Diaz

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in…

— William Labov

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium…

— Don Paterson

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

— George Bernard Shaw

I would rather cuddle then have sex. If you are good with grammar you will get it.

— Anonymous

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

— Noam Chomsky

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

— David Starkey

“#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

— Halliwell Hobbes

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

— Patricia Mauceri

Whenever someone spells something wrong, I always look to see if the two letters are close on the keyboard.

— Ronald Oliver

What are you? My Grammar teacher? Stop correcting my Bed speling!

— Green Monk

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

— Angela Rayner

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

— Joseph Heller

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

— Alexis Soyer

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

— Emily Saliers

“Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you.”

— M.F. Moonzajer