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If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Alive Away Come English Fantastic Feeding Grammar Imagination Just Language Learn Like Love Makes Our Our Love Rules Stories Subject Take Taught Us Would

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The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: About Evolved Grammar Language Languages Music Numbers Obviously Rhythm Same Structures Them Things Think Understanding Vocabulary Way

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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

Topics: Cattle Cows Dad Eighth Eighth Grade Four Gave Grade Graduated Grammar Grammar School He Herd His Kept Manager Me Own Owned Ranch School Them Those Track Years

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What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

~David Baker

Topics: Alphabet Book Does Give Give Me Grammar Had How Learned Me Regular Same Scales Still Syntax Tell Tools Ulysses Way Write You

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Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.

~David Crystal

Topics: Effect Film Films Grammar Influence Instructions Language Many Mediums Most Much Pick Point Point Of View See Sounds Think Up Very View I Think

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I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?

~David L. Wolper

Topics: Asked Containing Dig Every Front Got Grammar Had Kid Liberty Meaning Meaning Of Microphone Move Nation Out Paper Pocket Pull Sheet Statue Statue Of Liberty Students Up Us Winning Wonderful Words World Would Write

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I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Buy Day Every Every Day Grammar Know Language Me People Persuade Rules Seems Should Something Think Try Trying Use Vernacular Which Write You

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

~David Sedaris

Topics: Feel Grammar Just Mouth New New Yorker Right Rules Sometimes Yorker

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Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it.

~Dede Gardner

Topics: Age Entrust Grammar Myself Remember Rock Vividly I Remember

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

~E. B. White

Topics: Act Faith Grammar Trick Writing

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