Top 39 Apostrophe Quotes
#1. If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur
Doug Larson
#2. Does he honestly think he's still in charge?" Mashona wondered. "He thinks Human's First has an apostrophe.
Tanya Huff
#3. Teachers Lounge is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn Lounge into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.
Ted Alexandro
#4. I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.
Steve King
#5. Once upon a time
Somebody say to me
(This is a dog talkin' now)
What is your Conceptual Continuity?
Well, I told him right then
(Fido said)
It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit
Is the Apostrophe(')
Frank Zappa
#6. We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.
Deb Caletti
#7. What was the apostrophe doing there? Did the doctor own the Meescham? And what was it with exclamation marks? Did people not know what they were for? Surprise, anger, joy - that's what exclamation marks were for. They had nothing to do with who resided where.
Kate DiCamillo
#8. When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe
Richard Madeley
#9. Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
Lynne Truss
#10. Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.
Robert Webb
#11. It s too great a
blow underlined
to a man apostrophe s
pride
to see a woman
influence other women
more than he can
himself
Don Marquis
#12. Take what the British call the "greengrocer's apostrophe," named for aberrant signs advertising cauliflower's or carrot's in local fruit and vegetable shops.
Naomi S. Baron
#13. Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.
Lynne Truss
#14. It also bugs me when I hear about "Angelina's adopted son" or "Rosie's adopted children"
as if that word will always separate them instead of binding them together. Angelina's son and Rosie's kids and I sould get a regular apostrophe-plus-s like everybody else.
Kristin Chenoweth
#15. 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.
John Humphrys
#17. I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
Will Self
#18. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.
Lynne Truss
#19. I get the Reese's candy bar. You look at that, there's an apostrophe-s there. That means the candy bar is his. I didn't know that. Next time you're eating a Reese's candy bar, and a guy named Reese comes by and says, "Gimme that", you better hand it over.
Mitch Hedberg
#20. Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.
Mary Norris
#21. Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.
Holly Smale
#22. It takes only an apostrophe to make the word impossible possible according to the word itself
ABC
#23. He'll is just one apostrophe away from Hell. Keep that in mind.
Gabbo De La Parra
#25. The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.
David Foster Wallace
#26. He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin.
Kristin Hannah
#27. A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything." Con Houlihan
John Doyle
#28. I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe ... and probably a period. I'm a huge fan of punctuation.
Rainbow Rowell
#29. There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.
Edward Snowden
#30. Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion
and purification.
Omar Sharif
#31. I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.
M.F.K. Fisher
#32. Ligys corrected him primly. "I am not the bloodthirsty First Mate. "I'm the bloodthirsty ship surgeon.
C.K. Garner
#33. What I'm trying to say is, there's no perfect life without you. In fact, I no longer dream about a "perfect" life. I only dream about a life with you.
Melanie Harlow
#34. The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.
Paul LePaul
#35. Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba
#36. When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
Tom Cruise
#37. There is a figure that links the personal and the collective shadow; it is the Trickster. Jung describes the Trickster as 'the summation of all the inferior traits of character in individuals'.
Christopher Perry
#38. The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#39. It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs.
David Foster Wallace
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