Afternoon Quote by Edwin Arlington Robinson

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

— Winston Churchill

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

— Mary Norris

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in…

— Woodrow Wilson

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

— Woodrow Wilson

The words can not return.

— Horace

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

— A. A. Milne

I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were initially stamped…

— Fady Joudah

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an…

— Fady Joudah

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart…

— Woodrow Wilson

Microsoft Word will never understand that my name is not a spelling error.

— Anonymous