Punctuation Quotations

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

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.

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

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

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

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

Punctuation, is? fun!

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

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

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

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

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

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...

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

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

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

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

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.

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.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

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

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.