Punctuation Quotes - Page 3

• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

  Billy Wilder

  Aunt, Pay, Punctuality

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• When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

  James Fenton

  Song, Purpose, May

  James Fenton (2003). “An Introduction to English Poetry”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

  Steve Martin

  Tired, Letters, Periods

  Twitter post from Oct 7, 2011

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• Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

  Lynne Truss

  Thinking, Causes, Clear

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• Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

  Hugh Laurie

  Play, Way, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Punctuation, is? fun!

  Daniel Keyes

  Fun

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

  Simon Cowell

  Stills, Ifs

  "Simon Cowell: Simon says". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

  Robert Frost

  Art, Vocabulary, Discipline

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• Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Careers, Punctuation Marks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Doctors, Nurse, Born

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.

  Anne Ellis

  Thinking, Long, Gone

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Special, Jason

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.340, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Differences

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• The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

  Richard Brautigan

  Rain, Verbs, Dirt

  1968 Please Plant This Book,'Squash'.

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• Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mistake, Feet, Christ

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, "A Factless Autobiography", Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p 229, 1982.

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• That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

  Ron Perlman

  Punctuation Marks, Digital, Replacements

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

  Lynne Truss

  Jobs, Mean, Effort

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• Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything.

  Mirah

  Cheating, Song, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Causes, Graffiti

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• The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Punctuation Marks, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Punctuation Marks, Sentences, Humans

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

  C.E. Morgan

  Choices, Style, Mastery

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Enemy, Graffiti

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• 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

  Strong, Dumb

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Writing, People, Used

  Source: www.esquire.com

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