“ Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. Sandra E. Lamb
“ What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles… Terry Jones
“ It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net David Chiles
“ 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? Lynne Truss
“ Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. Red Red Rover
“ People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else. B.R. Myers
“ 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'… Jodi Picoult
“ At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. Paul Nurse
“ Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences Piero Scaruffi
“ 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 h… Margaret Atwood
“ 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
“ Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.) Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care about staying within… Natalie Goldberg
“ Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for an… Gilles Deleuze
