Function Quote by Bill Walsh

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

— William Strunk, Jr

“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it…

— Bergen Evans

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to…

— Eric Partridge

RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy…

— Ben Marcus

“White encouraged Updike’s equally scrupulous commitment. They bonded over dashes, colons, and commas—most amazingly in an exchange of letters in the last two months…

— Adam Begley

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

— George Bernard Shaw

Semi colon dash parenthesis, text messaging. Thats a side smiley face cause Imma make the best of it.

— XV

How hideous is the semicolon.

— Samuel Beckett

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The punctuation mark that best describes me as a person is the dash. But for Mark Question, it would probably be the question mark.…

— Jarod Kintz