Acknowledge Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking…

— Lindley Murray

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

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

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

— Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

— Nicola Morgan

“Punctuation comes from the Latin root punctus, or “point.” Those funny dots, lines, and squiggles help writers point the way. To help readers, we…

— Roy Peter Clark

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“It is not the issue here wether punctuation of communicational sequence is, in general, good or bad, as it should be immediately obvious that…

— Paul Watzlawick

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

— Andy Rooney

Punctuation saves lives.

— Alla

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

— Jean Giraudoux