Grammar Quotes

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

Life, Done, Made

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality, Everything, Thought

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

Control, Knows, Kings

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.
John Mayer

Good, Heart, Done

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Faith, Writing, Act

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

Words, Speak, Able

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
David Sedaris

Sometimes, Rules, Mouth

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

Trying, Try, Write

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
Fred Frith

Learning, Find, Speak

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion

Power, Play, Piano

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky

Whatever, Universal, Theory

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
Whitney Houston

School, Bad, Long

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch

Often, Style, Fierce

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
Bo Derek

Learning, Sorry, Place

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
A. N. Wilson

Success, Whole, Story

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

Good, Learning, Brain

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz

Social, Criticism, Begins

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
Nigel Farage

Give, Leader, Won

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

Beginning, Knows, Maybe

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
Margaret Atwood

Saying, Thought, While

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon

Thought, Books, Rules

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

Good, Philosophy, Said

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
Gary Numan

Home, School, Parents

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson

Thought, Away, Seems

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
Julie Walters

Education, Women, God

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.
Steve Coogan

School, Someone, Different

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

Famous, School, Wanted

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
Anthony Holden

Music, Teacher, School

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.
Michael Morpurgo

School, Focus, Important

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
Terry Eagleton

Faith, School, Children

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