Grammar Quotes Page 2

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16.

Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane.

These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature, a grammar in which the symbols are plants, animals, birds, fishes, earth and sky. I am merely a channel for the spirit to utilize, and it is needed by a spirit starved society.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

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.

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

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.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together.

You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

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.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar.

How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

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

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

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology.

It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

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

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

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

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

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

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

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