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Grammatical Quotes

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. Gilles Deleuze
Amos Bronson Alcott quote: "Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished..."
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression Amos Bronson Alcott
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears... Jack Kerouac
The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible beyond a certain point: the most faithfully descriptive account of anything will always turn away from what it describes into its own self-contained grammatical fictions of subject and predicate and object. Northrop Frye
The elderly are spooky when they degenerate into reflections of their younger selves. They say things that make sense on some grammatical level, but it’s not always connected to reality. Scott Adams
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story? to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. Stephen King
And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still in use today, and old words were employed in ways not tried before. Nouns became verbs and adverbs; adverbs became adjectives. Expressions that could not have grammatically existed before - such as 'breathing one's last' and... Bill Bryson
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and..."
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. Robert Anton Wilson
Larisa Oleynik quote: "If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have..."
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. Larisa Oleynik
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. Brian P. Cleary
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir quote: "French and German illustrate the misleading character of..."
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. Edward Sapir

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