So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays;… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it since before I was born. My body is a nightmare… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
