(57 quotes found)
“Me fail english? Thats unpossible.”
Matt Groening
“Grammar is not a time of waste”
Nancy Cartwright
“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
Carl Sandburg
“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar”
Michel de Montaigne
“I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.”
Octavio Paz
“GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.”
Robert Graves
“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“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