Simon Cowell Quotes

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

… a barbarian who could not write one sentence of grammar.

Unlike the current occupant of the White House [George W. Bush], he has no difficulty in orally extemporizing a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon.

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

I still like complete sentences that are grammatically correct without spelling errors. I don't always achieve this, and it is irksome to read a message I have sent and discover errors. I know I often leave out words in e-mail, not by choice, but because of the way my brain works.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.