Quotation Marks Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey
Avoid overuse of 'quotation â€œmarks.â€' — William Safire
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
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did… — Tahereh Mafi
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks… — Arthur Miller
There is no way you can use the word â€œrealityâ€ without quotation marks around it. — Joseph Campbell
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
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks… — Bent Larsen
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
I like commas. I detest semi-colons â€” I donâ€™t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation… — William Strunk, Jr.
I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers… — Jeffrey McDaniel
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is… — Michael Steele
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner. — Rachael Ray

Who Wrote These Quotation Marks Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Quotation Marks Quotes as follows: