Grammar Quotes

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

Maurice Saatchi

SlowWayGrammarWriteMostI Write

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

ControlKingsGrammarEvenKnows

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

Nina Bawden

SchoolCollegeYearBackGrammarUs

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

Richard Corliss

IgnoranceWordsBlackGrammarGuy

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Paul Nurse

AgeSchoolGrammarAcademicState

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Karl von Frisch

SchoolMedicineGrammarUniversity

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

E. B. White

FaithWritingGrammarActTrick

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Maurice Druon

SocietyGrammarAnarchyDetestable

Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it.

Dede Gardner

AgeMyselfRememberRockGrammar

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

AnimalsGrammarWhateverOutTheory

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

Marilyn vos Savant

WordsSpeakYouGrammarWouldAble

I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.

Kathleen Kennedy

SchoolFunHusbandPersonGrammar

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

Ferdinand de Saussure

LanguageGrammarLongerWereMerely

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

SchoolSomeoneYouListenGrammar

On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since.

Christopher Lloyd

SunWeekPlayRockGrammarAfraid

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

Noam Chomsky

YouEarlyNobodySayTryGrammar

There's a certain visual grammar you've got to stick in. For example, if a character has just woken up, draw him in his pajamas with the bed a bit rumpled. Or if he's ill, draw little bottles with red crosses on that immediately communicate medicine, and a box of tissues.

Korky Paul

CharacterRedMedicineYouGrammar

My wife saw a mug somewhere that says, 'I'm silently correcting your grammar.' I think that is perfect thing for me.

Harry Hadden-Paton

WifeMeThinkPerfectGrammarSaw

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure

LanguageSpiritGrammarMovementUp

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Steve Earle

SchoolSingingSongLandGrammarUp

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

Bobby McFerrin

SchoolCollegeSingingGrammarLike

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Noam Chomsky

FatherBookKnowGrammarGetSome

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

Hisham Matar

FatherSpeakDictatorshipGrammar

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Dave Brubeck

SchoolMeManagerGrammarYearsOwn

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