I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Use the semicolon like you would use any powerful weapon (your best pick-up line or your most effective push-up bra): carefully and… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
I don't even know how to use a semicolon to this day; I use a comma every time. And you know what?… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
“So we’re seemingly in quite a pickle. Sometimes a period provides too much pause between these two sentences, but the comma doesn’t… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
“I love you like a semicolon; a half-pause in a torrent of thought during which life stutters into being. I want to… — Ophaelia Automn Copy Share Image
“The semicolon, my friends, is the punctuation mark we use to join two complete sentences. When we want to separate two complete… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“We might also want to use a semicolon to hold together two sentences to avoid giving the reader too much time to… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Nora— Forgive me for copyediting, but it must be said—you have raped the semicolon yet again. Stop it. It wasn’t asking for… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause. t ev'ry comma, stop while… — Cecil Hartley Copy Share Image
Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to… — George Will Copy Share Image
If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A semicolon is used when a sentence could have ended but then was continued. Take a minute and realize this is symbolizing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
![“the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something needs to be added [ . . .] The period [or full stop] tells you that that is that; if you didn’t get all the meaning you wanted or expected…” quote by Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4b9/lynne-truss-4153_punctuation_the-american-essayist-lewis-thomas-on-th_2003613.png)
