Ellipsis In Quotes

#1. In nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

Elizabeth I

#3. What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past
the whole life of a civilization
but also a major share ofthe Jewish future ... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

Cynthia Ozick

#4. I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

Sarah Dessen

#5. Lucky Charms?" I asked.
"Magically delicious," he explained. "Requisite for any sort of building project."
I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. "This isn't a date."
He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I'd bring Count Chocula for that.

Richelle Mead

#6. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

Bergen Evans

#7. Gertrude was a veteran of the love wars.

Jerry Pinto

#8. Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

Stacy Allison

#9. Why volunteer to fight in wars that contribute nothing for our security and undermine our Constitution? More and more Americans are beginning to realize that the government has little to do with "defending our freedoms" or stopping terrorism.

Ron Paul

#10. It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

Kathy Valentine

#11. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Ed Bradley

#12. Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.

Lynne Truss

#14. If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times.

Tony Robbins

#15. I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her.

John Green

#16. Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#17. Space was full of questions, life was a sentence always ending in an ellipsis or a question mark. You couldn't answer everything. You could only believe there were answers at all.

Lavie Tidhar

#18. She "loved me" in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .

Colleen Hoover

#19. I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen

#20. In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Milan Kundera

#21. An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Jami Attenberg

#22. My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.

Tomaz Salamun

#23. When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Charles Baxter

#24. It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy.

C.S. Lewis