Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than...… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot 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
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image