Quotes by Punctuation Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary. Benjamin Disraeli punctuationaccentsreading My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? Billy Wilder punctuationauntpay Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Charles Dickens piperspunctuationdeals Punctuation, is? fun! Daniel Keyes punctuationfun 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 punctuationagerunning Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes. Fernando Pessoa punctuationfeetmistake Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. George D. Prentice punctuationeditingwriting 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 Minhaj punctuationdumbstrong You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch. Keegan-Michael Key punctuationwritingpeople I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation Lisa Kleypas punctuationkissingends Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. Lorrie Moore punctuationrealwriting The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. Lynne Truss vapourpunctuationway Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. Lynne Truss punctuationcausesthinking Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. Lynne Truss punctuationstorieshelping 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 Kellogg punctuationdoctorsnurse Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member. Mary Norris punctuationconservativeclubs I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. Maurice Saatchi punctuationwritingway Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge. Muriel Rukeyser punctuationlanguagebody 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 Richardson punctuationscorebars I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. Simon Cowell punctuationstillsifs12»
