Quotes about Grammar

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. Votes: 5

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Votes: 5

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. Votes: 5

Grammar is the grave of letters. Votes: 4

Grammar, which can govern even Kings. Votes: 4

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. Votes: 4

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. Votes: 4

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. Votes: 4

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Votes: 4

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. Votes: 4

Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank. Votes: 4

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented. Votes: 4

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 should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. Votes: 4

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms. Votes: 3

Grammar is the grave of letters Votes: 3

Grammar is the analysis of language. Votes: 3

Grammar is politics by other means. Votes: 3

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. Votes: 3

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings Votes: 3

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Votes: 3

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. Votes: 3

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar. Votes: 3

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing. Votes: 3

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing. Votes: 3

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar. Votes: 3

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really. Votes: 3

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find? Votes: 3

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. Votes: 3

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find? Votes: 3

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. Votes: 3

If Language is a Flower then without Grammar it will not smell. Votes: 3

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. Votes: 3

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power Votes: 3

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Votes: 3

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. Votes: 3

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws Votes: 3

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools. Votes: 3

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. Votes: 3

Grammar Checker "“ A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don't. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. Votes: 3

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar. Votes: 3

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. Votes: 3

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it! Votes: 3

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. Votes: 3

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar. Votes: 3

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. Votes: 3

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). Votes: 3

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock. Votes: 3

What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak? Votes: 3

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.. Votes: 3

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express. Votes: 3

Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard. Votes: 3

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. Votes: 2

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. Votes: 2

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. Votes: 2

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' Votes: 2

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. Votes: 2

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. Votes: 2

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. Votes: 2

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. Votes: 2

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. Votes: 2

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. Votes: 2

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. Votes: 2

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax Votes: 2

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. Votes: 2

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 that. Votes: 2

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. Votes: 2

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. Votes: 2

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. Votes: 2

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done. Votes: 2

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. Votes: 2

Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing. Votes: 2

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! Votes: 2

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural... Votes: 2

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. Votes: 2

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. Votes: 2

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. Votes: 2

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. Votes: 2

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. Votes: 2

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years. Votes: 2

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me. Votes: 2

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive. Votes: 2

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around. Votes: 2

I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes. Votes: 2

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E. Votes: 2

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! Votes: 2

Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar. Votes: 1

The past is always tense, the future perfect. Votes: 1

The best grammarian still can't write a verse. Votes: 1

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. Votes: 1

Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life. Votes: 1

Well, I am more partial to a semicolon myself. Votes: 1

Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006. Votes: 1

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction Votes: 1

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar Votes: 1

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric. Votes: 1

My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical. Votes: 1

In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers. Votes: 1

thnkz 4 hlpng e wth e spllng d gwammer mestr josef Votes: 1

If you can spell "Nietzsche" without Google, you deserve a cookie. Votes: 1

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated Votes: 1

That is the correct grammar, you know: her husband and me. Votes: 1

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. Votes: 1

The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. Votes: 1

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life. Votes: 1

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld. Votes: 1

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence Votes: 1

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar Votes: 1

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. Votes: 1

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. Votes: 1

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors Votes: 1

Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku. Votes: 1

Verum de nulla orationis parte praecipere difficilius est, quam de collocatione et usu coniunctionum. Votes: 1

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me. Votes: 1

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion. Votes: 1

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. Votes: 1

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar. Votes: 1

That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. Votes: 1

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. Votes: 1

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. Votes: 1

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. Votes: 1

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. Votes: 1

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. Votes: 1

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. Votes: 1

I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence. Votes: 1

I can kick the can down the road, and I can also kick other modal verbs. Votes: 1

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. Votes: 1

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. Votes: 1

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. Votes: 1

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet. Votes: 1

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Votes: 1

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. Votes: 1

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. Votes: 1

Internet Etiquette is a subset of Netiquette for using proper forms of the alphabet, Netiquette Words. NetworkEtiquette.net Votes: 1

Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you. Votes: 1

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. Votes: 1

It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net Votes: 1

Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. Votes: 1

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it. Votes: 1

Whom" may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there. Votes: 1

Each other refers to two nouns; one another refers to three or more, a distinction that careful writers generally observe. Votes: 1

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details? Votes: 1

How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence? Votes: 1

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. Votes: 1

Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail. Votes: 1

...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Votes: 1

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. Votes: 1

Take what the British call the "greengrocer's apostrophe," named for aberrant signs advertising cauliflower's or carrot's in local fruit and vegetable shops. Votes: 1

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences Votes: 1

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it Votes: 1

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. Votes: 1

A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe. Votes: 1

Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass. Votes: 1

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. Votes: 1

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected. Votes: 1

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. Votes: 1

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else. Votes: 1

The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment. Votes: 1

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. Votes: 1

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover. Votes: 1

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead. Votes: 1

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. Votes: 1

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. Votes: 1

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions. Votes: 1

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. Votes: 1

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 should use their language. Votes: 1

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. Votes: 1

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Votes: 1

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, "Hopefully, go find a guy who knows there is no u in awesome Votes: 1

That Grace looked annoyed at me."I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you would say the word correctly, that's all. Votes: 1

In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity is, only whether it is spelled right. Votes: 1

In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences. Votes: 1

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! Votes: 1

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be. Votes: 1

It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're. Votes: 1

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom. Votes: 1

Why no s for two deer,but an s for two monkeys?Brother Quang saysno one knows.So much for rules!Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake. Votes: 1

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better. Votes: 1

The misconceptions about grammar posted on the Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do an equally bad job of teaching both Votes: 1

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? Votes: 1

This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. Votes: 1

The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just cause them to evolve into a sneakier, more robust breed. Votes: 1

But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn. Votes: 1

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar. Votes: 1

Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together. Votes: 1

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears... Votes: 1

The writer who places grammar ahead of his wit is likely to fail at quotes. He does great disservice to himself twice in just one declaration. This has been my failing to date. Brevity would help too. Votes: 1

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: 'they' does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. Votes: 1

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation. Votes: 1

And the stains would never wash out. That's what Lukas was saying. She would always have hurt her father. Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar. Votes: 1

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. Votes: 1

What the hell was it about e-mail that made everybody forget the stuff they learned in second grade, like capitalizing I and proper names, and using periods? Hello? We all learned how to do this less than five years out of diapers! Votes: 1

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender. Votes: 1

I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant -- indeed something only hoi polloi would say. Votes: 1

No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Votes: 1

The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it. Votes: 1

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. Votes: 1

It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers. Votes: 1

Cheers,' she said as I left, 'and don't forget you're seeing Matt and I on Monday.'I thought for a moment she'd said 'matineye', an East End pronunciation of 'matinee'. Was I meant to review it?Then I remembered Matt was the production editor.'Me won't forget,' me muttered as me went downstairs. Votes: 1

Everything bows to success, even grammar. Votes: 0

scales are the grammar of music. Votes: 0

Statistics is the grammar of science. Votes: 0

Forget grammar and think about potatoes Votes: 0

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic. Votes: 0

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. Votes: 0

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. Votes: 0

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better. Votes: 0

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. Votes: 0

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. Votes: 0

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. Votes: 0

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. Votes: 0

Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you. Votes: 0

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. Votes: 0

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. Votes: 0

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. Votes: 0

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth. Votes: 0

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar. Votes: 0

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. Votes: 0

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. Votes: 0

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. Votes: 0

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. Votes: 0

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' Votes: 0

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects. Votes: 0

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. Votes: 0

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. Votes: 0

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. Votes: 0

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, Votes: 0

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! Votes: 0

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. Votes: 0

Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. Votes: 0

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. Votes: 0

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. Votes: 0

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. Votes: 0

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. Votes: 0

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. Votes: 0

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see. Votes: 0

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Votes: 0

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. Votes: 0

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm. Votes: 0

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. Votes: 0

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages. Votes: 0

Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old. Votes: 0

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. Votes: 0

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week. Votes: 0

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest Votes: 0

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. Votes: 0

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. Votes: 0

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Votes: 0

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Votes: 0

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual. Votes: 0

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. Votes: 0

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. Votes: 0

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears. Votes: 0

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service. Votes: 0

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. Votes: 0

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. Votes: 0

Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice. Votes: 0

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. Votes: 0

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. Votes: 0

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business. Votes: 0

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. Votes: 0

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. Votes: 0

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well. Votes: 0

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. Votes: 0

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. Votes: 0

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. Votes: 0

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Votes: 0

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. Votes: 0

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. Votes: 0

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. Votes: 0

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. Votes: 0

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.""Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?""Poor grammar skills. Votes: 0

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. Votes: 0

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational. Votes: 0

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). Votes: 0

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? Votes: 0

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday." Votes: 0

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. Votes: 0

FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say. Votes: 0

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it. Votes: 0

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Votes: 0

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate. Votes: 0

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. Votes: 0

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. Votes: 0

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge. Votes: 0

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies. Votes: 0

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. Votes: 0

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do. Votes: 0

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. Votes: 0

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. Votes: 0

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin. Votes: 0

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in... Votes: 0

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. Votes: 0

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. Votes: 0

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus. Votes: 0

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar! Votes: 0

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them. Votes: 0

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. Votes: 0

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language. Votes: 0

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain. Votes: 0

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings Votes: 0

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar. Votes: 0

Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments. Votes: 0

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. Votes: 0

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it. Votes: 0

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?' Votes: 0

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time, Votes: 0

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. Votes: 0

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning. Votes: 0

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable. Votes: 0

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying. Votes: 0

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. Votes: 0

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. Votes: 0

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it. Votes: 0

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well. Votes: 0

I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean. Votes: 0

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. Votes: 0

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. Votes: 0

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. Votes: 0

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient. Votes: 0

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding. Votes: 0

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford. Votes: 0

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school. Votes: 0

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful. Votes: 0

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. Votes: 0

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy. Votes: 0

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such." Votes: 0

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. Votes: 0

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Votes: 0

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs. Votes: 0

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common. Votes: 0

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound. Votes: 0

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read. Votes: 0

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards. Votes: 0

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact! Votes: 0

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era. Votes: 0

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that. Votes: 0

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar. Votes: 0

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past. Votes: 0

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least. Votes: 0

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. Votes: 0

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar. Votes: 0

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. Votes: 0

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved. Votes: 0

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy. Votes: 0

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable. Votes: 0

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books. Votes: 0

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them. Votes: 0

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge. Votes: 0

An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar. Votes: 0

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. Votes: 0

...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense. Votes: 0

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. Votes: 0