Comma Quotes

60 quotes by 55 authors

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know. — Mistinguett
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. — Truman Capote
There is truth and falsehood in a comma. — Tom Stoppard
Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop. — Chris Martin
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma… — Mark Slouka
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk, Jr.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. — Henry Ward Beecher
I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but… — Nicki Minaj
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote… — Umberto Eco
If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the… — Roy Peter Clark
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing… — Winston Graham
I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my… — George W. Bush
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. — Larry Wall
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin… — Elwyn Brooks White
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think… — Geoffrey Rush
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it… — Donald Hall
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. — Joey Santiago
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare

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