Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken 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
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it. — Joseph Campbell 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
“The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.” — Michelle Hodkin 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
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
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
“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The… — Philip Gourevitch 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
Try scrolling through a regular teenager's Facebook or Instagram posts, everything is captioned with borrowed words or lyrics from songs, without any… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda 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
“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
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the… — Bent Larsen 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
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
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
“Only the “˜intercourse’ part.” Miranda makes quotation marks with her fingers. “Why do they call it intercourse anyway? It makes it sound… — Candace Bushnell 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
“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
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
“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
I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not… — Carrie Underwood 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what… — Jacques Derrida 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
“Kyle stepped into Cole’s chest, and he wrapped his arms around her. They fit together like two quotation marks.” — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
“I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in… — Michelle Hodkin 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 is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've…” quote by Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74b/fran-lebowitz-690_can-do_in-a-print-interview-as-you-may-or-may-n_1784638.jpg)
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