Exclamation Marks Quotes

• Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Exclamation Points, Mind

  "The Wit And Wisdom Of Terry Pratchett", www.esquire.com. December 3, 2015.

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• In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

  Lynne Truss

  Brother, Hands, Piano

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• So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

  Miles Kington

  Laughter, Reading, Writing

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• "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Discworld, Multiple

  "Eric" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 153), February 2002.

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• And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

  Terry Pratchett

  Discworld, Underpants, Five

  "Maskerade". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1995.

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• The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Knowledgeable Person

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• All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Skulls, Warning

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• Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

  John Mortimer

  Strong, Imagination, People

  John Mortimer's remarks in defense of record shop proprietor Christopher Seale against obscenity charges for displaying advertisements for Sex Pistols' LP "Never Mind the Bollocks" at Nottingham Magistrates Court, November 14, 1977.

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• It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

  Joey Santiago

  Nice, Ends, Sentences

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• The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Stars, Butterfly, Eye

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• Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

  Derek Landy

  Writing, World, Glad

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• I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

  Isaac Marion

  Hurt, Distance, Eye

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

  Gail Carriger

  Purpose, Moved, Mark

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• I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Numbers, Ink

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• I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

  Isaac Marion

  Punctuation Marks, Long, Want

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Tired, Question Mark, Mark

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