Clubs Quote by Mary Norris Download Open image “Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.” — Mary Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clubs Conservative Members Punctuation
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of… — Mina P. Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out even on… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I always forget that, in the popular imagination, the copy editor is a bit of a witch, and it surprises me when someone is… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Raves when it was safe to be free & wave your hands in the air, like you didn't even care! Not scared to break… — Progrezza Copy Share Image
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