Punctuation Quotes

98 quotes by 79 authors

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky,… — Tahereh Mafi
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. — Maurice Saatchi
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up… — Brian P. Cleary
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for… — Mark Twain
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker
What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances -… — Tibor Kalman
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the… — Virginia Woolf
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity.… — Van Day Truex
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells… — Robert Rauschenberg
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to… — Ralph Richardson
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time… — Georg Simmel
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible… — Lynne Truss
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation. — Lynne Truss
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
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially… — Don Tapscott
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The… — Dorothea Benton Frank
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida… — Peter Bergen

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