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Syntax Quotes & Sayings

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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

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. — John Steinbeck

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

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. — Eddie Huang

Grammar, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody. — Samuel Johnson

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own. — Mason Cooley

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

We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem — Various

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

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster. — Ryan North

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

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

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

I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. — M. Pierce

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

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. — Marvin Bell

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

Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell. — Janet Peery

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

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

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure — Aaron Betsky

Some authors wouldn't know their syntax from a Tampax. — Kevin Ansbro