Quotes by Syntax Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful. Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild being-thankfulsyntaxgenius The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite. Noam Chomsky syntaxpoliticalfacts It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. Richard K. Morgan forgivingsyntaxphrases I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things. I can scarcely refrain from suspecting some ancient, diffused magnetism; a call from the center of things; a dim, almost lost memory, or perhaps a presentiment, pointless in so puny a being, of a universal syntax. Roger Caillois syntaxmemoriesneeds It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but refuses to come in Hebrew. To some extent I made up my Hebrew. Unquestionably, the influence of Arabic is dominant, my syntax is almost Arabic. Sami Michael hebrewsyntaxwriting [Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique. Sandra Cisneros mexicansyntaxunique Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. Siri Hustvedt coherencesyntaxmemories Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street. Stephen King syntaxwritingpeople Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax. Terry Eagleton syntaxoddsliterature The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax Thomas Paine syntaxlibertyamerica Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it. Will Rogers taxessyntaxsin Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language. William Shawn syntaxprinted-wordbelieve Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them. Wilson Follett prosesyntaxcertain«12
