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1 " Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. "
― Amit Ray , Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
2 " Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. "
3 " MacKinnon captures this is in her succinct lesson on the grammar of pornography and male dominance: 'Man fucks woman "
4 " In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. "
― Nancy Mairs , Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer
5 " I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. "
― Mordecai Richler , Barney's Version
6 " A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa—to be a bay—releases the water from bondage and lets it live. “To be a bay” holds the wonder that, for this moment, the living water has decided to shelter itself between these shores, conversing with cedar roots and a flock of baby mergansers. Because it could do otherwise—become a stream or an ocean or a waterfall, and there are verbs for that, too. To be a hill, to be a sandy beach, to be a Saturday, all are possible verbs in a world where everything is alive. Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the language I hear in the woods; this is the language that lets us speak of what wells up all around us.[…]This is the grammar of animacy. "
― Robin Wall Kimmerer , Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
7 " Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact. "
― Kiran Desai
8 " Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is the grammar of reason. "
9 " Statistics is the grammar of science. "
