Marks Quotes

Marks Quote of the day

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

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

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

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

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

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. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.

Your marks don’t matter when your radiance is overwhelming. When we’re our best selves we forget all those imperfections and appreciate beauty for how it is.