Top 17 Grammarian Quotes
#1. I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].
Pope Gregory I
#2. [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#3. Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. For example, there is an old grammarian's saw about how a sentence can end in five prepositions. Daddy trudges upstairs to Junior's bedroom to read him a bedtime story. Junior spots the book, scowls, and asks, Daddy, what did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of up for?
Steven Pinker
#7. Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
Hermann Hesse
#8. Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.
Suzanne Farrell
#9. For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
Diane Paulus
#10. Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
Aldous Huxley
#11. At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one. (from Vanishing Acts)
Jodi Picoult
#12. Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.
Yuval Noah Harari
#14. Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.
Patricia Briggs
#15. The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"
Keith Richards
#16. I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one? ... It's kind of like a joke to me now.
Britney Spears
#17. Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.
William Landay
