Comma Then Quotes

#1. I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. - Author: Lyn Hejinian

#2. I'd rather be a comma than a full stop. - Author: Chris Martin

#3. I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. - Author: Oscar Wilde

#4. 5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma. - Author: William Strunk Jr.

#5. Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx.
Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But ... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of his comma, and of being his comma's recipient. - Author: India Knight

#6. I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean. - Author: Lisa Glatt

#7. My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen. - Author: Bill Walsh

#8. So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes - to treachery, treason, and adultery - by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma. In - Author: Amor Towles

#9. She was unconscious in a comma."

"You mean a coma."

"Do I? - Author: Neil Gaiman

#10. Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period. - Author: Adrian Rogers

#11. And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know. - Author: Frank Bruno

#12. We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#13. The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. - Author: Edgar Allan Poe

#14. There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#15. Many people live in an induced spiritual comma; they are inherently vicious, and are completely unaware of their malady. - Author: Bryant McGill

#16. i thought grief would insert itself in the middle and never leave.

i know better now.
stanzas are for quitters
punctuation is for the brave.
If love is a semicolon then grief is a comma:
it won't ever stand alone,
but it will give you one breath,
in. - Author: Kat Helgeson

#17. I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but then again who looks at the price tag ya know? - Author: Nicki Minaj

#18. She wakes up loving him, but not hard enough. He has dandelion hair. Stars fall and zip between them, they can't stop laughing; she falls asleep curled around him like a comma. He is gay, and often, he reminds her that she deserves better. She nods seriously and then forgets. - Author: Meg Pokrass

#19. His body forced itself into a comma as a result of the trauma. The - Author: Cindy Patterson

#20. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. - Author: Mary Norris

#21. The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma." - Author: Mary Norris

#22. I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem. - Author: Denise Levertov

#23. What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause. - Author: Geoff Tibballs

#24. Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life. - Author: Billy Graham

#25. I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story. - Author: Louis Sachar

#26. In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. - Author: Neal A. Maxwell

#27. Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard. - Author: Amor Towles

#28. Never place a period where God has placed a comma. - Author: Gracie Allen

#29. I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. - Author: Gustave Flaubert

#30. (I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!) - Author: Nick Bantock

#31. Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect for your reader, - Author: Lynne Truss

#32. Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences
even if you're right. - Author: Buffy Andrews

#33. In New York, f*** isn't even a word. It's a comma. - Author: Lewis Black

#34. My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. - Author: William Shakespeare

#35. What would it be like to live one whole day as a Ruskin sentence, wandering like a creek with little comma bridges? - Author: Mary Oliver

#36. I don't even know how to use a semicolon to this day; I use a comma every time. And you know what? If I email somebody and they get upset about me using a comma instead of a semicolon, that's not a person I want to work with anyway. And that's how you weed people out of your life. - Author: Hannibal Buress