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That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. — Jim Butcher

for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And — Robert Lane Greene

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. — Jennifer Hudson

Are your ellipses (...) implying something significant or do you just enjoy abusing grammar for no reason? — Whitney G.

...And somewhere along the line in my literary career, I discovered the differences between grammar and grandpa, and write from wrong. — Dan Adams

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek. — R. Curtis Venture

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar. — Halliwell Hobbes

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. — Ruth Rendell

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

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected. — M.F. Moonzajer

In the grammar of the phallus
the I, I, I
[woman] can't utter female experience. — Nancy Mairs

All divisions in religion arise from ignorance of grammar. — Joseph Justus Scaliger

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. — Lynne Truss

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. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences — Piero Scaruffi

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. — Mark Twain

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! — Richard Harris Barham

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. — Dave Barry

It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I
unhinge. — Antonin Artaud

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details? — Tina Fey

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. — Paul Nurse

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. — John Amos Comenius

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. — Jonathan Heatt

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 — John Green

The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present; past and future are only the grammar thing for him. — Ankit Rawat

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

the painter had no need for grammar.
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language — Munia Khan

Asking for better grammar is inflammatory in the school," says an occasional T.A. "You have to give an A or you're a racist. — Anonymous

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me. — Sophie Morgan

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It — David Crystal

Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them. — Haruki Murakami

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?' — Winston Churchill

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. — Red Smith

Whom" may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there. — Mary Norris

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. — Jonathan Lethem

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it — Carl Sandburg

Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson

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

You're barely older than me.'

'Than I,' he corrected me with a little smile. — H.P. Mallory

There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar — Jonathan Lethem

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. — Jeffrey Steingarten

Grammar is the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. — William Shakespeare

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. — D.T. Max

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. — Benjamin Disraeli

If Language is a Flower then without Grammar it will not smell. — Purushottam Muley

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find? — Lemony Snicket

With whom," Logan corrects from his booth making me want to give him a big grammar Nazi high five. — Sherry D. Ficklin

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. — Joss Whedon

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it. — M.F. Moonzajer

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden

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, — Charles James

Logic no more explains how we think than grammar explains how we speak" [Minsky]. Logic — Ali Almossawi

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. — Josh Malerman

Every dance you know is an anti-grammar of another dance you do not know. — Thomas Sayers Ellis

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. — John Clare

the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In — Sebastian Faulks

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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. — Charlton Laird