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