Colons For Quotes

#1. Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Neil Gaiman

#2. It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

Elton John

#3. Love is priceless,
but the righteous give it for free.
Hate is cheap,
but the wicked purchase it at high prices.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Jodi Picoult

#5. all great technologies are blends of other technologies.

Robert I. Sutton

#6. Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

E.B. White

#7. Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#8. If we want to avoid the disaster of one-world-government, if we wish to preserve our priceless national sovereignty and live through all time as free men, then it is imperative that the American people read The Shadows of Power.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#9. My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. I thought about TimeBlaze. We should ... shorten the titles. The titles are getting long. More colons than a proctologist.

D.C. Pierson

#12. I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

John Clare

#13. You must showcase your work, achievements and performance in the best possible manner.

Abhishek Ratna

#14. Wherever it left us,
we were barely learning to live with it
when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams
to tell us that no one has ever been loved
the way everybody wants to be loved,
and that's hard. That's hard.
last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand

Miller Williams

#15. I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

E.L. Doctorow

#16. If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Pico Iyer

#17. If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.

Lynne Truss

#18. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger

#19. Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

Brett Gelman