A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
A. P. Martinich
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
Paul Nurse
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
Tony Parsons
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
Gilbert Murray
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
Richard Harris Barham
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Emperor Sigismund
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
Anthony Holden
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
Karl von Frisch
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
Trevor Horn
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
Mike Farrell
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
John Hume
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