Bourne Quote by Tom Duff

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

— Frank Capra

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

— Sandra Cisneros

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

— Larry Wall

The grammarians are arguing.

— Horace

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of…

— Isabelle Huppert

Grammar is the grave of letters.

— Elbert Hubbard

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded.…

— Ellen Ullman

Scriptwriting [for film] is the toughest part of the whole racket . . . the least understood and the least noticed.

— Frank Capra

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all…

— Viola Davis

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

— Janet Peery

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I…

— Chiaki Kuriyama