Advertising Quote by David Ogilvy

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you…

— David Ogilvy

“Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s”

— Vernor Vinge

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”

— Steven Pinker

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.”

— Stephen Jones

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“You could sometimes guide people’s opinions, but if they didn’t want to buy what you had to sell you could shout yourself hoarse trying…

— Clive Barker

“People buy for their reasons, not yours.”

— Abby Donnelly