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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. -- Brian P. Cleary
An aspersion upon my parts of speech! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). -- Soren Kierkegaard
I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech. -- Jeffrey McDaniel
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. -- James Russell Lowell
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.... -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.... -- Denise Levertov
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence. -- John Wesley Powell
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. -- Joseph Devlin
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly. -- Eleanor Catton
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. -- Aristotle
The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. -- David Whyte
A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners. -- Naa Shalman
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. -- John Henry Newman

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