Punctuation Quotes
98 quotes by 79 authors
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We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding…
— Nick Hornby
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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter…
— Julie James
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Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in…
— Laini Taylor
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Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive…
— Lynne Truss
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I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
— Rainbow Rowell
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Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about…
— John McWhorter
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I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a…
— Tom Wolfe
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True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
— Barton Gellman
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Punctuation is powerful!
— Khat Leen
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We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and…
— Chris Lowe
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I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the…
— Dennis Miller
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Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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The period. Punctuation mark to all, but public enemy number one to women.
— Laura S
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Punctuation saves lives.
— Alla
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It's two A.M. To sleep or to write that is the question? Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of my poor…
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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I write things that I love I write things that I hate but the problem with what I write is I poorly punctuate
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Who Wrote These Punctuation Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 98 Punctuation Quotes, led by these top contributors: