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  1. Jerry Spinelli _ Maniac Magee

    Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel.
    book-quotegrammarmaniacsyllable

  2. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pecuchet

    Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.
    book-quotelanguagegrammarillusions

  3. Douglas Coupland _ Generation A

    Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Misplace a single or and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.
    book-quotewordslanguagegrammar

  4. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
    book-quotehumorhumourscience-fiction

  5. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    Correct spelling, correct punctuation, correct grammar. Hundreds of rules for itsy-bitsy people. No one could remember all that stuff and concentrate on what he was trying to write about. It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies. Gentlemen and ladies had good table manners and spoke and wrote grammatically. It was what identified one with the upper classes. In Montana, however, it didn't have this effect at all. It identified one, instead, as a stuck-up Eastern ass.
    book-quotewritinggrammarmontana

  6. Jodi Picoult

    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.
    humorgrammarschool

  7. Douglas Coupland _ Generation A

    Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Misplace a single or and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge."
    book-quotewordslanguagegrammar

  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Year of the Flood

    Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
    book-quotegrammarimmortality

  9. Lynne Truss _ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The

    Some may say that the British are obsessed with class difference and that knowing your apostrophes is a way of belittling the uneducated. To which accusation, I say {mainly}, 'Pah!' How can it be a matter of class difference when ignorance is universal?
    book-quotehumorignorancegrammar

  10. Lynne Truss _ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The

    No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.
    book-quotegrammarlynne-trussgrammar-nazi

  11. Lynne Truss _ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The

    Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" {"attentive to formality or etiquette"} comes from the same original root as punctuation.
    book-quotemannersgrammarpunctuation

  12. Lynne Truss _ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The

    What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?
    book-quotehumorgrammarpunctuation
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