quotes about Grammar
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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
-- Adi Shankara -
Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.
-- Andy Zaltzman -
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
-- Artemas Ward -
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.
-- Charlton Laird -
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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 -
I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
-- Emma Stone -
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
-- Horace -
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
-- Isaac Goldberg -
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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 -
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.
-- Jim GaffiganSource : FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Apr 24, 2012
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
-- Laurence Sterne -
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
-- Maurice Druon -
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!
-- Miriam -
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
-- Muriel BarberySource : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.
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In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
-- Nancy Mairs -
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
-- NellySource : Song: Country Grammar, Album: Country Grammar
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
-- Octavio Paz -
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I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
-- Red Smith -
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
-- Richard Turner -
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
-- Robert Breault -
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
-- Robert Frost -
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Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
-- Robert Hooke -
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
-- Russell Brand -
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.
-- Stephen Shore -
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
-- Willard Van Orman QuineSource : Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.35, Harvard University Press
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
-- William E. Gladstone -
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
-- William SafireSource : William Safire (2011). “Watching My Language:: Adventures in the Word Trade”, p.383, Random House
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Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
-- Carlo Grante -
It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.
-- Ernest Sosa -
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
-- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor -
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Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
-- Richard Turner