Best Exclamation Marks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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Author:E.A. Bucchianeri

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

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Author:Joey Santiago

“Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?”

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Author:John Mortimer

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

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Author:Emile M. Cioran

“So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.”

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Author:Miles Kington

“A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.”

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Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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Author:Terry Pratchett

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

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

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Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

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

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Author:Gail Carriger

“I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.”

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Author:Lynne Truss

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

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

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Author:Derek Landy

“The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.”

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Author:Anna Akhmatova

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

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Author:Rajneesh