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I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi

The [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. — Steven Pinker

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. — Chris Van Allsburg

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

all sorts of considerations determine the truth conditions of a statement, and these go well beyond the scope of grammar. — Noam Chomsky

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

It becomes a matter to be put to the test of battle, when someone makes a conjunction of a word which belongs in the bailiwick of the adverbs. — Erasmus

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

Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku. — Frank Black

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears. — Emily Saliers

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel De Montaigne

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

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

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar. — Mary Norris

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms. — Roy Peter Clark

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

Grammar, he felt, was a sign of competence, not of excellence. — Kiran Nagarkar

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

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. — Noam Chomsky

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

No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy. — Gay Hendricks

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality. — Arthur Plotnik

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

Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar. — Marty Rubin

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. — C.J. Cherryh

Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar. Always have had gotten friends killed. — Hugh Howey

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench

And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'. — Mia Castile

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

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. — John Piper

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. — Frederick Buechner

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. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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 the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. — China Mieville

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). — Larry Trask

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

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

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

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. — Fulton J. Sheen

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss

Somehow, when I wasn't looking, somehow because it's electronic mail, none of the basic grammar rules applied. — MaryJanice Davidson

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

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' — A. P. Martinich

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

Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson

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

His use of the plural pronoun made me very suspicious. — Matthew Quick

Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

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

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. — Willard Van Orman Quine

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools. — Hugh Gaitskell

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. — Robert Breault

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale

Turning I would into I did is the grammar of growing up. — Anthony Marra

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. — Tony Orlando

Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life. — Raheel Farooq

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. — Edgar Allan Poe

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, — Dave Barry

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. — Joseph Joubert

Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up. — Anthony Marra

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. — Val Kovalin

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel De Montaigne

Scales are the grammar of music. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

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

It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. — David Chiles

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. — James Russell Lowell

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

Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar. — Mark Twain

Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit. — Stephen King

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

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

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

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

Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor. — Lorrie Moore

People who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. — Mary Jane Holmes

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda

Grammar A stratum of consciousness Leading to beauty — Muriel Barbery

That last bit of babble had gone home. How was they supposed to know, that was ungrammatical but right. — Stephen King

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

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. — A.A. Patawaran

It was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. — J.M. Barrie

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

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. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. — Joan Didion

Her grammar in moments of emergency always impressed Kew. — Stella Benson

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. — R.L. Trask

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

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

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney

He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought. — John Edward Williams