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I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi

Sleep with him like that, so we were both just small, barely noticed punctuation in the huge book of life. — Harlem Dae

Well, for one thing," she said, "her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark. — Melissa Bank

The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter. — George F. Will

It creates an effective contrast, like riding a bike down a long and peaceful country road and every other hundred yards the bike turns into a bear. — Yahtzee Croshaw

The eyebrows are the punctuation marks of the face. — Dave Horowitz

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. — Abbas Kiarostami

Choosing whether or not to insert a comma is the same as choosing whether or not to buy a house. — Chloe Thurlow

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power! — Nicola Morgan

New Super Mario Br - I'm just gonna call it "Steve" from now on, all right? — Yahtzee Croshaw

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate. — Christian Rudder

Drama, she'd learned, was like good punctuation: it underscored your point. — Kristin Hannah

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal? — Mary Norris

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers — Kurt Vonnegut

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member. — Mary Norris

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. — Lynne Truss

It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation. — Caroline Kepnes

I can't help but think that the way we punctuate now is the right way - that we are living in a punctuation renaissance. — Mary Norris

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. — Benjamin Disraeli

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs. — Mary Norris

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. — Mary Norris

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. — Barton Gellman

In my life, water has had the character of punctuation. — SueEllen Campbell

Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss. — John Golden

Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. — Fernando Pessoa

I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman. — Dana Gould

Punctuation are like road signs; without them we just may get lost... — Nanette L. Avery

Oh, dear." Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. "Is my punctuation showing once more? — Courtney Milan

Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood. — Henry G. Sheppard

The buildings line the canals like long sentences each house a word, each window a letter, each gap a punctuation. — David Levithan

So, have you seen Flood?" she asked. "Cop?" She added "cop" with a high pop on the p, like it was a punctuation mark, not a profession — Christopher Moore

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. — Haruki Murakami

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker

Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and special all the time. — Yahtzee Croshaw

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated. — A.J. Beirens

Don't hide it on my account," he growled. "You have the most damnably beautiful punctuation that I have ever seen. You make a man feel greedy. — Courtney Milan

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. — Simon Cowell

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe ... and probably a period. I'm a huge fan of punctuation. — Rainbow Rowell

Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ... — Muriel Rukeyser

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation — Lisa Kleypas

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead. — Sarah Dessen

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. — Jean Giraudoux

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. — Terry Pratchett

Punctuation lets your writing breathe... — Nanette L. Avery

you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation. — Lynne Truss

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice

What were they going to do after killing the president, declare themselves king? — Yahtzee Croshaw

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss

If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation. — Tarryn Fisher

You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible. — Austin Kleon

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion

Horrors from beyond the veil of time and space are coming to eat us so shut up, sounds like a pretty good draw card for a leader to have. — Yahtzee Croshaw

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. — Red Red Rover

Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation? — Azadeh Aalai

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. — Steve Martin

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost

I picked it up 'cause the back of the box said the Kinect had "finally found its hardcore game" and I interpreted that as a challenge. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Punctuation, is? fun! — Daniel Keyes

There's a new spell you get around level 50 called "Mirror Image" which might as well be called "Reap On, Ye Fucking Reaper Man". — Yahtzee Croshaw

With small-town America it's always either zombies or communists isn't it. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since. — Anne Elizabeth Moore

You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period. — David Levithan

What can you do with a character who responds to everything by either punching it or deploying Bat Anti-thing Spray ... then punching it? — Yahtzee Croshaw

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens

Great. They fucked with my punctuation?" "Pam says you're overly fond of semicolons. — M. Pierce

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation. — Lynne Truss

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. — Kelli Jae Baeli

Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language. — M.B. Parkes

Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress. — John Lennard

The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers. — Yahtzee Croshaw

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused. — SARK

In another landscape, a line of spruce in the distance would appear an inkblot, a punctuation to the endless grey sentence of the morning. — Kate Walbert

Readers of my online journal - I refuse to use the word blog because it sounds like something that lives on a riverbed and communicates through farts — Yahtzee Croshaw

I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation. — M.F. Moonzajer

Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise. Somewhere, like in Krazy Kat, you've got to throw the brick. — Richard Merkin

How exactly does a steam-powered gun turret differentiate between friend and foe? I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances. — Yahtzee Croshaw

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them. — Tom Wolfe

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. — Stephen Jay Gould

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless. — Gene Weingarten

I thought it was going to be different;
It turned out to be(,) just the same. — Edward Gorey