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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
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
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
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
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
I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
— Richard Brautigan
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 main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.
— Yahtzee Croshaw
Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.
— John Lennard
Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
— M.B. Parkes
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
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
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
— Russell Baker
In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
— SueEllen Campbell
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
If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation.
— Tarryn Fisher
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
— George D. Prentice
Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
— Isaac Marion
Punctuation, is? fun!
— Daniel Keyes
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
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
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
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
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
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 need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
— Gene Weingarten
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
— Stephen Jay Gould
