Hyphens Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
— Augustus William Hare
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This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.
— Eric Partridge
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
— Laurence J. Peter
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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 sign' have been…
— Martin Gardner
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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
— Toni Morrison
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The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
— Tim McCarver
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Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
— Frederick Lenz
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There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
— Mary Norris
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It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't…
— Frank McCourt
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My grandparents on my fathers side come to America from Germany, so that made them, German-American. My grandparents on my mothers side came to America…
— David Kreger
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Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied
— Anthony Brode
Who Wrote These Hyphens Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Hyphens Quotes as follows: