quotes about Punctuation
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Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
-- Billy Wilder -
Punctuation, is? fun!
-- Daniel KeyesSource : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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.
-- Don Tapscott -
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Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
-- George D. Prentice -
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
-- Isaac MarionSource : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
-- Lorrie Moore -
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
-- Lynne TrussSource : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2013.
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Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.
-- Lynne Truss -
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
-- Lynne TrussSource : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.
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Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
-- Lynne Truss -
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.
-- Marjorie KelloggSource : Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
-- Maurice Saatchi -
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
-- Muriel Rukeyser -
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.
-- Ralph RichardsonSource : "Tynan on Richardson". The Observer Magazine, December 18, 1977.
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I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
-- Steve Martin -
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
-- Terry Pratchett -
I will say that the thing that I use too much, and I need to stop, but the F-word is pretty great. When you say it, it's so viscerally strong. It also serves as a great punctuation point - it can really emphasize how dumb something is.
-- Hasan MinhajSource : Source: www.avclub.com