Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone…

“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

— Bill Cosby

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender…

— Iyanla Vanzant

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely…

— Evangeline Lilly

“(Ear cartilage is similarly underserved by the vascular system, so if you plan on picking a fight with Mike Tyson, do practice good wound…

— Mary Roach

The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic…

— D. A. Carson

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

— Anthony Marra

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the…

— Eugene Ionesco

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't…

— John Towner Williams

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will…

— Frederic Raphael

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism…

— Homi K. Bhabha

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

— Etgar Keret

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

— Toni Morrison

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor