The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation — Robert Frost 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
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
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of… — Claudia Gray 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
“How come you never use semicolons?” she’ll say. Or: “How come you chop it all up into little sections instead of letting… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A semicolon is used when a sentence could have ended but then was continued. Take a minute and realize this is symbolizing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He lives at Balbec?” crooned the Baron in a tone so far from interrogatory that it is regrettable that the written language… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“April 6—Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because,… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
