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Would you ever purposefully misappropriate syntax?
— Christopher Higgs
I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
— Salman Rushdie
The Canadian dialect of English ... seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
— Lister Sinclair
the autonomy of syntax;
— Noam Chomsky
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
— Marya Mannes
Since Feeling is first who ever pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you ...
— E. E. Cummings
I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax ...
— Dennis Ritchie
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
— Gordon W. Allport
Grammar, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.
— Samuel Johnson
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
— Wilson Follett
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
— Marilyn Hacker
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
— Quentin Crisp
I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than ... is where it all comes from.
— Zachary Cole Smith
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.
— Garth Greenwell
And memory has no syntax.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.
— William Zinsser
JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But
— David Flanagan
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
— Siri Hustvedt
Since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?
— E. E. Cummings
Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.
— Will Rogers
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
— Guido Van Rossum
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
He had a shaggy black dog whom he called Syntax.
— Anton Chekhov
Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.
— Robertson Davies
I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.
— Richard K. Morgan
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times.
— Sandra Cisneros
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
— Aaron Betsky
Some authors wouldn't know their syntax from a Tampax.
— Kevin Ansbro