73 Grammar Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All I am saying is that it would not be the same. Dimple Kapadia

Saying Language Young Would Hindi Am Very Same Achieved Being Grammar Things

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. Edmund Hillary

Relationship Year National Mountains Down Group Every Park Taken National Park Grammar Holiday Skiing Used Actually Started

My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that. Eileen Atkins

Family Class Money School Mother Men Nights Fact Nobody Liked Course Till Caught Doing Falling Hearing Anymore Grammar Grammar School Clubs Asleep Working Reason Bringing

In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy. Emily Kuroda

School Everybody Invisible Talk Said Still Very Grammar Grammar School Shy

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

Language Correcting Directed Studies Merely Towards Longer Were Grammar Henceforth

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. Gary Numan

Home Me School Parents Trouble Year Syndrome Launching Loner Toy Aeroplanes Causing Surprised Rockets Child Grammar Grammar School Psychologist Happiest Sent Might Really Who Mum Started Suggested Third

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up. Helen Mirren

Great Generation Women Money School Police Men Girl First Older Medicine OK Part First Generation Caught Educated Go Up Discrimination Hit Wall Grammar Grammar School Then Much Who Even Older Men

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery. Hisham Matar

Speak Dictatorship Father Threats Sons Grammar Bribery

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects. Jacob Epstein

Mathematics Me School Neglect Distasteful Draw Drawing Faculties Studies Retarded Over Indulgence Period Proud Passed Were Subjects Did Grammar Cannot Teachers Who Recall

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music. Jean-Michel Jarre

Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything. John Sulston

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

School Medicine Later Faculty Studied Grammar Grammar School Vienna University

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go. Kate Atkinson

Education Me School Father Horrible Had Allowed He House Got Go Private Denied Private School Childhood Grammar Grammar School Place Paid

There's a certain visual grammar you've got to stick in. For example, if a character has just woken up, draw him in his pajamas with the bed a bit rumpled. Or if he's ill, draw little bottles with red crosses on that immediately communicate medicine, and a box of tissues. Korky Paul

Character You Communicate Example Medicine Bit Draw Immediately Visual Crosses Bottles He Red For Example Him Box Stick Got Bed His Up Just Grammar Little Certain Ill Pajamas

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in. Lee Atwater

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

Slow Way Punctuation Write Most Terms Grammar

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look. Max Richter

Me Reality Rest Think Extract Relating Way Say Marks About Instinctively Look Make Always Making Sound Been Very Mode Trying Personal Human Human Beings Grammar Information Might Meaning Painter Beings Fundamental Basic

We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since. Melvyn Bragg

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Like so many other grammar schools that flourished in Britain before they were abolished through a mix of ideology and political folly, Harrow County was a fiercely competitive institution, where all boys were taught to strive for excellence. It was precisely because of this demanding regime that results were so good. Michael Portillo

Good Political Demanding Ideology Before Other Strive Abolish Folly Excellence Results Through Institution Like County Schools Because Boy Mix Were Precisely Taught Where Grammar Regime Fiercely Many Competitive Britain

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move. Nelly

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. Nigel Farage

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