Grammar Quotes - Page 7

• I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

  Emma Stone

  Kids, Bees, Spelling

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Female, Have Faith, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.300, Penguin

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• Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

  Joseph Heller

  Disappear, Make Sense, Knows

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Way

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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• I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Should Have, Intellectual

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

  Stephen King

  Feet, Feet And Walking, Walking

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• I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

  Mordecai Richler

  Doctors, Essence, Problem

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ideas, People, Soul

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• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Maturity

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in my face. Grammar of my life: as a rule of thumb, wherever there appears a plural, correct for singular. Should I ever let slip a royal We, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

  Nicole Krauss

  Blow, Doors, Long Ago

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Rain, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

  John H. McWhorter

  Writing, Issues, Insecurity

  John H. McWhorter (2001). “The Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "pure" Standard English”, p.62, Basic Books

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• Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Past, Littles, Kim

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Letters, Sometimes

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1421, Penguin

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Men, Wife

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

  Roald Dahl

  Powerful, Simple, English Grammar

  Roald Dahl (1987). “The Roald Dahl omnibus”, Hippocrene Books

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• I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Lying, Thinking, Law

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.143, A&C Black

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• [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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning."

  Salomon Bochner

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

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• 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.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Being Thankful, Syntax, Genius

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• 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

  People, Spelling, Threat

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• Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

  Terry Eagleton

  Christian, Children, Believe

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• Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

  Richard Bach

  Children, Ideas, Different

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