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“Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.”

Ifs Country Government Faces Forget Economic Theory Staring Grammar Forget You Congressman Foreign Countries Administrators Truman Harry Truman

Book:The Book of Daniel: A Novel

Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel

“My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.”

School Mother Cities Traveled Grammar Grammar School

Author:Edmund Hillary

“My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.”

Years Used Taken Groups Mountain Used To Be Parks Holiday Grammar Skiing National Parks

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.”

“The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.”

Shapes Bones Flesh Prose Grammar

Book:Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose

Source: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose

“Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.”

Language Simple Poet Superiors Human Condition Grammar Intervention Artisans

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.”

Men Feels Years Doe Said Sentences Spokes Speakers Grammar Composing

Author:B. F. Skinner

“I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.”

Thinking Needs Long Stories Found Pages Mark Long Ago Quotations Grammar Gave Up Detest Specks Quotation Marks

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”

Seems Lessons Mass Weight Breaths Grain Execution Grammar Fragments Better Days Impertinence

Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?”

Writing One Day Handle Arise Authenticity Mortals These Days Pens Spells Considering Multitudes Stamps Grammar Violation Permanence

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.”

Men World Art Practicals Heat Necks Agony Grammar Spelling

Book:American Language Supplement 2

Source: American Language Supplement 2

“Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.”

Seems Next Mark Chiefs Quotations Grammar Ardor Quotation Marks

Book:American Language Supplement 2

Source: American Language Supplement 2

“Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.”

Law Grammar English Grammar

Author:Robert Breault

“Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.”

Knows Needed Program Useless Software Grammar

Author:Richard Turner

“No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.”

Should Matter Used Clear Teacher No Matter What Sentences Grammar Arbitrary Punctuation

Author:Andy Rooney

“The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“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.”

Different Spirit Language Study Issues Movement Source Traditional Instance Relevant Grammar Linguistics Inscriptions Linguists

Author:Ferdinand de Saussure

“I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.”

Years Believe Political Left I Believe Social Rich Modern Events Changed Periods Years Ago England Shore Diverse Grammar Imperatives Intervening Modern English English Grammar

Author:Robert Burchfield

“Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.”

Believe Children School Christian Blind Grammar Blind Faith Grammar School

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.”

Men Age Young Boys Young Man Visuals Grammar Posture Captivated

Author:Susie Orbach

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

Writing Laughing Cutting Style Jokes Epic Grammar Exclamation Exclamation Points

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.”

Reason School Ability Reason Why No Reason Grammar Curriculum Grammar School School Curriculum

Author:Toby Young

“Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.”

Years Firsts States Shows School Girl Sides College Standing Photograph Grammar Scholarship Grammar School School Girl

Author:Nina Bawden

“We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.”

Humans Kind Mean Language Talking Struggle Starting Unconscious Drag Grammar Starting Over Accuracy Syntax

Author:Anne Carson

“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!”

Years School Used Week Ten Ships Midst Cents Sail Saturday Grammar Allowance Grammar School School Years

Author:Beverly Cleary

“Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.”

Different School Used Sound Type Ministers Rough Imitation Grammar Cabinets Grammar School

Author:Steve Coogan

“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.”

People Knows Book Style Demand Logic Judged My Thoughts Grammar Footsteps Knowledgeable Literary Criticism Severity Lice

Author:Louis Aragon

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

Knows School Cutting Taxes Europe Aids Flats Trends Grammar Referendums Foreign Aid Grammar School Flat Tax

Author:Nigel Farage

“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.”

Giving Believe School Leader Doors Taxes Europe Green Conservative Refuse Continuing Eastern Grammar Migration Eastern Europe Referendums Grammar School

Author:Nigel Farage

“Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.”

Giving Reading Language Study Sentences Yield Literacy Grammar

Author:David Crystal

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