Commas And Periods Quotes

#1. I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

Charles McCarry

#2. A child cannot pay for its mother's milk.

Chinua Achebe

#3. There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

Jeff Merkley

#4. Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

Abbey Lincoln

#5. It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

Martin McDonagh

#6. Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Matthew McConaughey

#7. 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

#8. If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Jonny Lang

#9. My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.

Christine Fonseca

#10. I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

J. August Richards

#11. Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.

Ian Kershaw

#12. Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Chipperfield

#13. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Matthew McConaughey

#14. To my editors, I graciously thank you. I now know "is" and "was" aren't the same thing. It's the periods and commas that got me. Can't see the darn things.

S.N. Deinscheiss

#15. Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. I don't believe in tame poetry ... Poetry busts guts.

Frank Stanford