Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

— Woodrow Wilson

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have…

— Martin Gardner

I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these characters are…

— Porochista Khakpour

You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the…

— Antonio Damasio

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

— Winston Churchill

The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

— Tim McCarver

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

— Laurence J. Peter

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

— Pamela Frankau

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart…

— Woodrow Wilson

Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied

— Anthony Brode

“If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.”

— Oxford University Press

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

— Mary Norris

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

— Eric Partridge