Grammar Quotes
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Grammar Quotes & Sayings
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Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
— Jennifer Hudson
...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
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
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
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
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
— Sarah Waters
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
— Buffy Andrews
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 greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
— Jennifer Crusie
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
Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
— Frederick Lenz
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
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
the painter had no need for grammar.
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
— Carlo Grante
Statistics is the grammar of science.
— Karl Pearson
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
— Richard Harris Barham
There's grammar in my bones!
— Stanley Kunitz
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
In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.
— Patricia Mauceri
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
Scales are the grammar of music.
— Frances Parkinson Keyes
Grammar is a piano I play by ear.
— Joan Didion
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
— Calvin Trillin
So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
— Moliere
Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life.
— Raheel Farooq
Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
— Mark Twain
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
If Language is a Flower then without Grammar it will not smell.
— Purushottam Muley
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
Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.
— John Clare
God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Every dance you know is an anti-grammar of another dance you do not know.
— Thomas Sayers Ellis
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
With whom," Logan corrects from his booth making me want to give him a big grammar Nazi high five.
— Sherry D. Ficklin
Logic no more explains how we think than grammar explains how we speak" [Minsky]. Logic
— Ali Almossawi
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
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
— John Dryden
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
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
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
You haven't even Fucking watched one piece. you're such a ignorant cunt. watch one piece. Watch it then judge, hate or whatever.
— Batuhan Ibal
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.
— Ruadhan J. McElroy
Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Marina Warner
Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.
— Stephen King
Grammar is the analysis of language.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences
— Piero Scaruffi
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
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