Grammar Rule Sayings

#1. Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

Lynne Truss

#3. And the stains would never wash out. That's what Lukas was saying. She would always have hurt her father. Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar.

Hugh Howey

#4. I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason.
Good God. Men everywhere.

Richelle Mead

#5. Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar. Always have had gotten friends killed.

Hugh Howey

#6. Two homes on either side of the road saw
Two women waving a good bye to their men

One was a newly married husband
Other was a proud son of a widow

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#7. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

Bernadette Devlin

#8. Why are you only wearing one shoe?" he asked.
"I lost the other. It upsets me to talk about it.

Laura Resnick

#9. Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/
a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/
i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/
in somebody else's cup ...

Ntozake Shange

#10. When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

Roger Ebert

#11. Bridget felt like she'd been sucked into a game of Clue. Delaney did it. In the football field. With an iron bar. Again, she had to force the words to die on her tongue.

Samantha Blake

#12. Never suppress a generous thought.

Camilla Eyring Kimball

#13. The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Ruth St. Denis

#14. To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Elsie De Wolfe