You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things… — Marjorie Kellogg Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation,… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.” — John Lennard Copy Share Image
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I will say that the thing that I use too much, and I need to stop, but the F-word is pretty great.… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
