Grammar Quotes

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

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.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

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

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

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.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.