English grammar Quote by William Safire Download Open image “Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare English grammar Grammar Inspirational Love Perfect Perfection
You may not be perfect in many things but, many things cannot be perfect without you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word imperfect actually spells I'm perfect because everyone is perfect in their own imperfect ways. — Asheya Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the same man… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
“English grammar and composition is difficult even for the English, but worse and worse for a Welsh boy. He speaks, reads, writes, and he… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole… — John Muir Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t write in… — Ilya Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said… — John Updike Copy Share Image
