Advantage Quote by Marya Mannes

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

— Quentin Crisp

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Janet Peery

“A like N.B. that Ewell ends up inserting under the heading Biker is that every professional tattooist everybody who can remember getting their tattoos…

— David Foster Wallace

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?

— e. e. cummings

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images…

— Allen Ginsberg

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other…

— James Lovelock

[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax.…

— Sandra Cisneros

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the…

— Michel Foucault

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and…

— Jerry Garcia