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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Punctuation, is? fun! — Daniel Keyes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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