Famous quotes containing the words question and/or grammar:
“The question thats probably uppermost in the childs mind is: Why do my parents want to have a baby? Dont they love me? And if they love me, why do they need another one? Arent I enough? Imagine for a minute yourself in a similar situation. Your husband comes home and says: Honey I love you so much, Ive decided to go get another wife so I can have two. How would you feel?”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
“Grammar is a tricky, inconsistent thing. Being the backbone of speech and writing, it should, we think, be eminently logical, make perfect sense, like the human skeleton. But, of course, the skeleton is arbitrary, too. Why twelve pairs of ribs rather than eleven or thirteen? Why thirty-two teeth? It has something to do with evolution and functionalismbut only sometimes, not always. So there are aspects of grammar that make good, logical sense, and others that do not.”
—John Simon (b. 1925)