Quotes About Participles

#1. I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.

Carol Berg

#2. It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

David Leavitt

#3. Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles.

Mark Twain

#4. Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild's ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.

Fredrik Backman

#5. On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.

Kristen Stewart

#6. Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.

Emanuel Schikaneder

#7. that weddings are far more than marriage ceremonies; we know that they are occasions for family stock-taking and catharsis; that

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

Bob Kane

#9. I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

Robert Atkins

#10. I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#11. That is the gay agenda ... it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.

Scott Lively

#12. Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Roger Goodell

#13. There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

Bing Crosby

#14. You know the saying, don't kill the messenger? Hold that thought really, really close to your hearts. (Hermes)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.

Jojo Moyes

#16. Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

Jay Inslee

#17. Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn't goal attainment but the process of striving after goals-that is, growth-that brings happiness.

Gretchen Rubin