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.
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I come across one thing I do and I want to study that in college. I love history, I love science, I love art, I love grammar, I love literature!
Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions. . . In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.
I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.
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.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that.
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
