Quotes on Grammar

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.

Author: David Baker

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.

Author: Bo Derek

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

Author: Karl Frisch

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.

Author: John Hume

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

Author: A. Martinich

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Author: Gilbert Murray

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Author: Tony Parsons

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.

Author: Ferdinand Saussure

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

Author: Ferdinand Saussure

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

Author: Marilyn Savant

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Author: Emperor Sigismund

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Author: Richard Trench