Hyphens Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. — Augustus William Hare
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
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter
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
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen. — Tim McCarver
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
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. — Mary Norris
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
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
Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied — Anthony Brode

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