Best Punctuation Marks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.”

Knows Writing Use Seems Clear Letters Mark Scripts Sentences Foolish Devices Spells Publishers Confusing Printed Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Andy Rooney

“I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.”

Needs Mark Irony Punctuation Clueless Punctuation Marks

Author:Gene Weingarten

“[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?”

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

Found Vision Mark Sentences Pavement Punctuation Punctuation Marks Passerby

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Ends Careers Mark Suicide Artistic Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“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.”

Mark Digital Preference Graphic Replacements Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Ron Perlman

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

Humans Human Beings Mark Sentences Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.”

Ifs Children Rooms Mark Victim Busy These Days Daddy Neglected Punctuation Mummy Punctuation Marks Neglected Child

Author:John Humphrys

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

Thinking Looks Poor Party Wife Mark Punctuation Exclamation Exclamation Points Punctuation Marks

Author:Dana Gould

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

Doe Ends Matter Periods Mark Sentences Interpretation Biblical Punctuation Question Mark Punctuation Marks

Author:Elie Wiesel

“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.”

Use Doors Expression Conversation Argument Mark Profound Italian Punctuation Punctuation Marks Italian Family Slamming Doors

Author:Mario Batali

“A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.”

People Book Eye Battle Ten Six Mark Twenties Casts Eight Symbols Arrangements Punctuation Eruption Waterloo Punctuation Marks Numerals

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

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

Want Long Mark Drowning Punctuation Exclamation Punctuation Marks Exclamation Marks

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“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.”

Seems Conversation Mark Agreement Locks Pauses Clicks Punctuation Nodding Mesh Punctuation Marks

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

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

Long Important Mark Sentences Smoking Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Book:Thank You for the Light

Source: Thank You for the Light

“Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter in each of those words. Mix it up between upper and lower case. Then pick two numbers that mean something to you – not dates – and stick them somewhere between the letters. Put a punctuation mark at the beginning of the password and then a symbol, like a dollar sign, at the end.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Mean Two Ends Character Use Numbers Cases Picks Letters Mark Dollars Sticks Sentences Symbols Minimum Fourteen Punctuation Passwords Punctuation Marks

Book:About That Night

Source: About That Night

“It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.”

Thinking Writing May Danger Example Particular Comfortable Claims Mark Critics Misuse Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Bergen Evans

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

Language Mark Traffic Signals Slow Down Punctuation Detours Punctuation Marks

Author:Lynne Truss

“But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.”

Wells Ends Process Answers Shots Mark Killing Fascinating Lions Hunting Bloody Hunts Intricate Phony Punctuation Leopards Answers To Life Punctuation Marks

Author:Robert Ruark

“Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.”

World Ends Hope Perfect Sky Fields Promise Rain Mark Sentences Honey Springtime Punctuation Blooming Punctuation Marks

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed.”

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

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