“To mention Boston we use 'Boston' or a synonym, and to mention 'Boston' we use ' 'Boston' ' or a synonym. '… — W.V. Quine Copy Share Image
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
1 - 2 If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller In the theater, while you recognized that you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken 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
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“And then another book, never read, long forgotten, catches his eye. The jacket is missing, the title on the spine practically faded.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore? — John Grisham Copy Share Image
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“There’s no spirit or soul. I will be dead. Get that through your thick head. I’ll be dead. And I live, in… — Edwin Shneidman Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
