Grammar Quotes - Page 14

• It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  School, People, Catholic

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• In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

  Patricia Mauceri

  School, Eight, Four

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

  Tony Vlachos

  School, Years, Birth

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

  E. B. White

  Children, Writing, Way

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.120, Cornell University Press

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• . . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Adequacy, Select, Meetings

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• All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable and why I would support him in this is that he has an absolutely impeccable record on the question of colour and race. People often wondered why. What I see as a possible explanation is [that] he came from a very wealthy family - a 'squattocracy' - and he had private education at home and then he went to boarding school at Melbourne Grammar School, one of those lead schools in Australia.

  Bob Hawke

  Home, School, Race

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• [Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely. I think he formed friendships with them, which established his judgement about the question of colour. That’s my theory. I don’t know whether it’s right or not, but that’s what I always respected about Malcolm. He was absolutely, totally impeccable on the question of race and colour.

  Bob Hawke

  Lonely, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.

  Johnny Griffin

  Kings, Party, Kids

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• We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

  Joan Halifax

  Adventure, Weekend, Ideas

  "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.

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• After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Two, Three, Cinema

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Facts, Principles

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, School, Son

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

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• The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

  Michael Crichton

  Expectations, Permit, Reader

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• I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.

  Mary O'Neill

  Thinking, Sea, Ideas

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• Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

  Carlo Grante

  Strong, Music Is, Bad Music

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• 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.

  Martin Walser

  Philosophy, Suffering, Study

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

  Nicolas Provost

  Artist, Sound, Cinema

  Source: filmmakermagazine.com

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• [My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.

  Nicolas Provost

  Art, Play, Challenges

  Source: filmmakermagazine.com

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• I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

  Dave McKean

  Letters, Way, Eras

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Reading, Teaching

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• Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

  John Piper

  Christian, School, Fighting

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• If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I went to Jesuit schools that focused on first there's grammar, then there's rhetoric, and rhetoric's usually seen as a kind of degraded method, because you're trying to persuade.

  Vito Acconci

  School, Important, Trying

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

  C.E. Morgan

  Choices, Style, Mastery

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

  Richard Whately

  Complaining, Use, Logic

  Richard Whately (1867). “Rhetoric”, p.9

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• I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.

  Max Muller

  Mean, Eye, Hair

  "Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas". Book by Max Müller, 1888.

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