Cases Quote by E. M. Forster

“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied,…

— Richard Powers

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

— Maimonides

“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.”

— Jodi Picoult

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

— George Eliot

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

— Charles Bukowski

“Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.”

— Janet Peery

“The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number of equivalent…

— Tobias Dantzig

“It began as many a beginning does, with an end.”

— Tom Ryan

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire…

— Douglas Hofstadter

“ Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”

— Ambrose Bierce

The grammarians are arguing.

— Horace

“A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having…

— Charles Dickens