Quote by Henry G. Sheppard

“Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.”

— M.B. Parkes

“Grammar and spelling are a part of thought process. If one knows the meaning of words, one may be able to better understand the…

— Sienna McQuillen

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them. If we ever get out…

— Norton Juster

“But spell check and grammar check are like vodka: they are definitely helpful but shouldn’t be solely relied on to solve our problems.”

— Jenny Baranick

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

— Lynne Truss

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“Reading is a distraction from comprehension.”

— Eric Bentsen

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

— Benjamin Disraeli