Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily… — Richard Mitchell
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code. — George Steiner
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. — Paul Nurse
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our… — Jean-Pierre Serre
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose,… — Trevor Horn
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar… — Richard Bach
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. — Gilbert Murray
Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy… — William Cobbett
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else. — Brian Reynolds Myers
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule… — Elsie de Wolfe
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more… — Joshua Reynolds
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl von Frisch
Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better. — Andy Zaltzman
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more… — Francine Prose
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar. — Isaac Goldberg
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose… — Will Schwalbe
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. — Kurt Vonnegut
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.… — Margaret Atwood
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on… — Rafe Esquith
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat… — Mark Twain
Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic"… — John of Salisbury

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