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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ↗

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. ↗

— Julie Walters

#baby boomers #bbc #boomers #editors #education

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

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

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#away #breath #grammar #impertinence #lesson

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#cello #grammar #grammar school #his #horror

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. ↗

— David Sedaris

#grammar #just #mouth #new #new yorker

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. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#grammar #grammar-humor #humor #humour #science-fiction

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#grammar-humor #humor #humor

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

— Baltasar Gracián

#grammar #speech #spelling #synonyms #vocabulary