Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.
I write music with an exclamation point!
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.")
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!
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.
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.
Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
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.
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
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.
I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.
or simply:
