Busy Quote by John Humphrys

“The semicolon is a much neglected beast”

— Randall McCutcheon

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with…

— Lynne Truss

“He’d been so neglected as a child that the withdrawal of love pulled all his emotional triggers, exploding the carapace of narcissism built by…

— Neil Strauss

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

— Richard Linklater

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

— Anonymous

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

— Mona Charen

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

— Pearl S. Buck

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be…

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Tahereh Mafi

“Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic…

— Marilyn Johnson

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

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

— Lynne Truss