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Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.


Robert A. Heinlein


#humor #science-fiction #time-travel #humor

Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a subject." I glance at him. "It isn't." "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?


Jodi Picoult


#grammar #humor #school #humor

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.


Dave Brubeck


#cows #dad #eighth #eighth grade #four

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.


Ludwig Wittgenstein


#everything #found #grammar #harmony #language

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.


Jennifer Hudson


#ever #famous #grammar #grammar school #i

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.


Pauline Neville-Jones


#almost #approach #break #came #education

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.


Baltasar Gracián


#grammar #speech #spelling #synonyms #vocabulary

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing


Martin Luther


#grammar

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.


Edgar Allan Poe


#writing-advice #grammar

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.


Mordecai Richler


#literature #psychiatry #grammar






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