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“Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.”

America Names Lost Mines Occasions Gentleman Addresses Spares Geography Punctuation Botany Chronology Previous Work

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“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

“Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.”

Looks Littles Made Important Use Light Values Dark Rooms Color Elements Majors Stronger Unity Scales Related Intensity Contrast Hue Punctuation Small Rooms

Author:Van Day Truex

“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”

I Can Ideas Interesting Virtue Spells Very Interesting Momentum Assistants Punctuation Interesting Ideas

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

Audience Bars Defined Relate Score Strict Punctuation

Author:Ralph Richardson

“Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.”

Life Is Activity Relation Technique Mutual Stable Schedules Integration Unimaginable Punctuation Punctual Metropolitan

Book:The Sociology of Georg Simmel

Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel

“As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.”

Long Enjoy Particular Amount Messages Aspect Enormous Crowded Subversive Spelling Carriages Punctuation Railway Texting Non Stop Text Message Long Words

Author:Lynne Truss

“Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.”

Helping Stories Reader Courtesy Stumbling Punctuation

Author:Lynne Truss

“When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.”

Kind May Helping Purpose Song Study Modern Speech Pages Notes All Kinds Tragic Academic Spelling Punctuation

Book:An Introduction to English Poetry

Source: An Introduction to English Poetry

“No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.”

Should Matter Used Clear Teacher No Matter What Sentences Grammar Arbitrary Punctuation

Author:Andy Rooney

“To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.”

People Children Book Reason Facts Would Be Written Married Punctuation

Author:Lynne Truss

“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!”

Ifs Knows Want Police Editors Scare Pants Punctuation

Author:Dorothea Benton Frank