“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“A text message has no soul, no matter how many commas you shift.” — Vikki Wakefield Copy Share Image
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name. — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals? — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms. — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“1) I’m, a, comma, whore. Apparently, I throw them around like confetti. Or glitter. The title of my next book: WHY COMMAS… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
“And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Leave no "full stop" in between the sentences that make up your life story. If anything, let "commas" show that when you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“I tried to put the displacement between parenthesis, to put a last period in a long sentence of the sadness of history,… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
