A Quote by Janet Malcolm

People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways.

Janet Malcolm

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Janet Malcolm
American - Writer
Born: 1934

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

Walt Whitman

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

Barack Obama

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Oscar Wilde

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

Deborah Tannen

If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.

Deborah Tannen

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Robert Frost

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

It's the biggest thing in the world in many ways, football. People don't want to talk about politics. They don't want to talk about religion. They want to talk about football - wherever you go.

Glenn Hoddle

There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.

Laura Schlessinger

I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

Gene Luen Yang

You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.

Bob Saget

I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

Jake LaMotta

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

John Spence

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.

Charles Burnett

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Henry Lawson

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Woody Guthrie

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