Quotation Marks Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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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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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
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Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.â€'
— William Safire
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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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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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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
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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
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There is no way you can use the word “reality†without quotation marks around it.
— Joseph Campbell
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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
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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
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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
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found…
— E L Doctorow
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Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
— H. L. Mencken
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Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
— Paul Eldridge
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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: