Animals Quote by Randall McCutcheon

How hideous is the semicolon.

— Samuel Beckett

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

— Brian P. Cleary

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

— Abraham Lincoln

“I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons” – and although I…

— Lynne Truss

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something…

— Lynne Truss

“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a…

— Victor Klemperer

“Semicolon, you dolt!”

— Jean Shepherd

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is…

— Kurt Vonnegut