Punctuation Quotes
Punctuation Quote of the day
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.
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 a writer's thought.
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.
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.
Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.
Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.
> CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I’m not yelling!!! > CracKing: You’re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that’s like yelling.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
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.
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.