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The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

~ Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon English Language Grammar Oratory Speech

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

~ N.d. Wilson

N.d. Wilson Creative License English Rules Grammar Rhetoric Speech

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

~ T.k. Naliaka

T.k. Naliaka Discipline Grammar Rhetoric Teachers Training

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.

~ Sophie Morgan

Sophie Morgan Bdsm Grammar Grammar Humor

The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean minority in this country that is still offended by violations of the English language, you will be slapped in the face every time you stand in line at the market. FIFTEEN ITEMS OR LESS. Caring passionately about grammar—caring passionately about anything most of humanity doesn’t care about—is like poking a giant hole in your life and letting the wind blow everything around.

~ Rachel Kadish

Rachel Kadish Caring Grammar

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

~ Constance Hale

Constance Hale Grammar Prose

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

~ Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson School Grammar Always

Statistics is the grammar of science.

~ Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson Statistics Grammar

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

~ Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse School Grammar Academic

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

~ Thomas W. Higginson

Thomas W. Higginson Thought Grammar Lesson

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

~ Joan Didion

Joan Didion Grammar Know Play

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

~ Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Studying Grammar You

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

~ Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell Mind Grammar Modern
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