Grammatical Structure Quotes

#1. No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Edward Sapir

#2. As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.

Jennifer Haigh

#3. I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

Taye Diggs

#4. Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

Coventry Patmore

#5. Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.

Abbi Glines

#6. Now, on the contrary, here he was , plunged into a whiteness so luminous, so total, that it swallowed up rather than absorbed, not just colours, but the very things and beings , thus making them twice as invisible

Jose Saramago

#7. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.

Thomas Dreier

#8. The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#9. Protect the workers, encourage the rich.

Victor Hugo

#10. A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Walter Kirn

#12. Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.

Veronica Roth

#13. There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

Kate DiCamillo