If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg 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 like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow 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
I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your… — Jeffrey McDaniel 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
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
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word,… — Ann Coulter 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
The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a… — Tom Steyer 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
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“I suppose this is a trivial matter but I do want to object to the maddening fuss-fidget punctuation which one of your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“The forms of direct-half-hidden and completely hidden quoting were endlessly varied, as were the forms for framing quotations by a context, forms… — Mikhail Bakthin Copy Share Image
What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“Translating punctuation from the Hebrew Bible is a problem, since ancient Hebrew has no periods, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks,… — Aviya Kushner Copy Share Image
“As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in… — Lynne Truss 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
“Guts,” never much of a word outside the hunting season, was a favorite noun in literary prose. People were said to have… — Renata Adler 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
“We propose that use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in memory for details directly contributes to removing the social… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
“A few words which he wanted to emphasize were put into brackets or set off by quotation marks. My first impulse was… — Jean Genet 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
