Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Whatever it is that you know, or that you don’t know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons. They don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
> CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I’m not yelling!!! > CracKing: You’re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that’s… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we… — Keegan-Michael Key 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
“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive,… — Lynne Truss 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
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While… — Lynne Truss 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
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
“It is not the issue here wether punctuation of communicational sequence is, in general, good or bad, as it should be immediately… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“Meals provide punctuation to our lives: we’re constantly recovering from them, anticipating them, riding the emotional ups and downs of a good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause… — Ice T 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
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation.… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and… — Mina P. Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a… — Hugh Laurie 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 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
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,… — Lynne Truss 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
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use… — Julie James Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
![“[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the…” quote by Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b2b/agnes-repplier-1850_benefits_mary-wortley-montagu-wrote-more-letters_1332253.jpg)
