Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled…

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

— Lynne Truss

I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.

— Dana Gould

We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a…

— Ron Perlman

“I suppose this is a trivial matter but I do want to object to the maddening fuss-fidget punctuation which one of your editors is…

— Edward Abbey

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

— Gene Weingarten

If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and…

— John Humphrys

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

— Anonymous

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly…

— Agnes Repplier

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he's forced into my head.”

— Tahereh Mafi

But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer…

— Robert Ruark

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it…

— Bergen Evans

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

— Elie Wiesel

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont…

— Andy Rooney