Syntax Quotes

49 quotes by 46 authors

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why… — Samuel R. Delany
Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature… — Jorge Luis Borges
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody… — Dorothy Parker
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious… — Adrienne Rich
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to… — Lincoln Kirstein
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular… — David Baker
I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles

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