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Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

Ann Coulter
quotation-marks politics war

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Arthur Miller
quotation-marks cameras house

Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

Bent Larsen
quotation-marks example practice

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

Catherine Brady
quotation-marks ugly pages

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Edward Abbey
quotation-marks trying reality

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

Eric Partridge
quotation-marks light writing
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butt... by H. L. Mencken

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

H. L. Mencken
quotation-marks grammar next
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah! by James Joyce

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

James Joyce
quotation-marks quotations mark
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation... by Joseph Campbell

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Joseph Campbell
quotation-marks knowing-who-you-are reality

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Martin Gardner
quotation-marks chips want
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. by Mason Cooley

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

Mason Cooley
quotation-marks mark museums

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Michael Steele
quotation-marks process use

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

Paul Auster
quotation-marks use gone
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quota... by Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Paul Eldridge
theft quotation-marks bigs

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

Tahereh Mafi
quotation-marks upside-down ends

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Umberto Eco
quotation-marks example views
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”' by William Safire

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

William Safire
quotation-marks quotations mark

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

William Strunk, Jr.
quotation-marks air attention
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