Quotes by category:Exclamation Points

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Amos Oz

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When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.

Chelsea Handler

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Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Criss Jami

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

Dana Gould

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Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Daniel Handler

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Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Elmore Leonard

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God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

Eric Weiner

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Keep your exclamation points under control!

Henry Miller

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Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

Iyanla Vanzant

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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

J. D. Salinger

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Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.

Jon Glaser

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Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself.

Laurie Helgoe

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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain

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I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

Michael Jackson

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I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.

Michael Kors

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In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

Neal A. Maxwell

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When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually curses. She doesn't use dirty words; she'll literally say "asterisk, pound sign, exclamation point, the-letter-'A'-with-a-circle-around-it, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.")

Paul Reiser

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...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Ray Bradbury

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I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

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