Grammar Quotes

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy. - Peter Bogdanovich

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. - E. B. White

Why care for grammar as long as we are good? - Artemus Ward (writer)

Whenever someone spells something wrong, I always look to see if the two letters are close on the keyboard. - Ronald Oliver

When your last breath arrives,Grammar can do nothing. - Adi Shankara

When you finish that section of the test, you can stay and review that area of the test only. Remember your punctuation and grammar. - Brenda Taylor

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses. - Unknown

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat. - Henry David Thoreau

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. - Thomas W. Higginson

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. - David Baker