Quote by Jenny Baranick

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

No funny stuff in here tonight, you understand?” Dash said, “I assure you I could not contemplate any of your so-called funny stuff seeing…

— David Levithan

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

— Mark Twain

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

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

— Faith Salie

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

— Nigel Barker

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a…

— Miles Kington

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

— Anonymous

“An excessive use of exclamation marks is a certain indication of an unpractised writer or of one who wants to add a spurious dash…

— Anonymous

Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in.…

— Derek Landy

My style is simple but with exclamation points.

— Jackson Wang

“["Emoticon" is] one of the worst words ever--it deserves to die horribly in a head-on crash with infotainment .”

— Geoff Nunberg