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Grammar Quotes

Joan Didion quote: "Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is..."
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Joan Didion
Richard Chenevix Trench quote: "Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar..."
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. Richard Chenevix Trench
Haruki Murakami quote: "Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set..."
Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them. Haruki Murakami
Joan Didion quote: "Grammar is a piano I play by ear."
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. Joan Didion
John Clare quote: "grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound..."
grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. John Clare
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. Bertrand Russell
Stephen King quote: "Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on..."
Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. Stephen King
Moliere quote: "Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere
Tony Parsons quote: "Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy."
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. Tony Parsons
I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool. John Updike
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm Stephen King
A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all? Charles Dickens
Mark Twain quote: "Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not..."
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. Mark Twain
What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else, when the result is to wind up so far behind? Philip Roth
He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you “had love toward” her, as if itwere a physical thing you could present and hold—a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness. Jodi Picoult

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