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

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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

When a thought takes ones breath away a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

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.

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.

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.

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

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

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.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

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.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

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

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

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.

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

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

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

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

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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

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.

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

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

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and 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.

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

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

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

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.