Top 100 Exclamation Quotes
#1. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett
#2. It's about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks
Natasha Tsakos
#3. And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise
Mary Balogh
#4. Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#5. it s cheerio
my deario
that pulls a
lady through
exclamation point
Don Marquis
#6. When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
R.C. Sproul
#7. Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?
John Mortimer
#8. Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.
Chaz Bufe
#9. In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#10. There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. Even in bold. Even in underlined bold italic. I need something else, some punctuation mark not yet invented.
Glen Duncan
#11. It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
Patrick Stewart
#12. Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
Daniel Handler
#13. One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
Mark Twain
#15. Lockwood gave a sudden exclamation; when I looked at him, his eyes were shining. 'On second thoughts, we can scrap my last suggestion,' he said. 'Stuff the mingling. Who wants to do that? Boring. George - this library. Where is it?
Jonathan Stroud
#16. In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
Neal A. Maxwell
#17. I like you, period."
"I like you, exclamation point.
Olivia Cunning
#18. There are instances in which it might seem more appropriate or accurate to include an exclamation point with a question mark. This has given rise to a unique punctuation mark known as the "interrobang" (
Farlex International
#19. God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called "human grace." Somewhere along the way, we've lost sight of this.
Eric Weiner
#21. This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.
Claire Hennessy
#23. Running a bit late meet at my place around 7?'
Smiling at the phone, my fingers fumbling over the keypad quickly,
'Yup-see you there!'
I deleted the exclamation mark and counted to thirty before I allowed myself to press send.
Jessica Shirvington
#24. Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.
Derek Landy
#25. The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark ... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.
Jodi Picoult
#26. The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
Rajneesh
#27. I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
Isaac Marion
#28. I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.
Dana Gould
#29. Please come to Destination I'm not doin well Exclamation
Nicki Minaj
#30. I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.
Christy Hall
#31. She wagged a finger at him. "You're mispronouncing that word."
"Your pardon?" He groped, trying to remember what he'd said. "Suffragette? How does one pronounce it, then?"
"Suffragette," she said, "is pronounced with an exclamation point at the end. Like this: 'Huzzah! Suffragettes!
Courtney Milan
#32. Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.
Jon Glaser
#33. What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.
Terry Pratchett
#34. People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.
Tom Wolfe
#36. Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Isaac Newton
#38. I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.
Neil Gaiman
#39. He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
Samuel Johnson
#40. I mention the library only as a last resort. I recommend buying your own books... They can be spiced with underlines, question marks, and exclamation points; they can be thumbed and dog-eared, plucked to their essential core, and annotated so that they become a mirror of yourself.
Kato Lomb
#41. We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair
#42. Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. "Okay," I agreed.
The mischief turned to triumph.
Damn those magic eyes!
Sarah Brocious
#43. After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
Robert McCammon
#45. I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect ... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first! ... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.
Tom Wolfe
#46. I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#47. You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
L.M. Montgomery
#48. Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
Amos Oz
#49. Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Terry Pratchett
#51. I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation 'Who would have thought it?'
Hugh Jackman
#52. I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.
Clarice Lispector
#53. The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.
George F. Will
#54. I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.
Michael Kors
#55. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
Mistinguett
#56. Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
Lewis Thomas
#57. If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out.
Michael S. Horton
#58. She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
J.D. Salinger
#59. So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.
Miles Kington
#60. I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.
Trey Anastasio
#62. I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
Ray Bradbury
#63. Insufferable woman!" was her immediate exclamation. "Worse than I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable! Knightley! - I could not have believed it. Knightley! - never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley! - and discover that he is a gentleman!
Jane Austen
#64. (On Panic Attacks) And once I had my first one with Maegan, they crept up about once a month. And without warning. It was worse than getting my period. In fact, I called it my exclamation point.
Mamrie Hart
#65. The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
Steve Maraboli
#66. hadn't grown into being a woman, she had become a woman with an exclamation mark, the sort of hardy feminine brute of the Pleistocene from which all women, great and frail, are descended.
J. Ryan Stradal
#67. He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn't laugh at him.
Ransom Riggs
#68. You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.
Ronald Rolheiser
#69. The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs ...
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#70. Well, let's go! And we go like this now, hand in hand." "And eternally so, all our lives hand in hand! Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya cried once more ecstatically, and once more all the boys joined in his exclamation.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#71. (If you've been puzzled by the name !Kung Bushman, the exclamation mark is not an expression of premature astonishment; it's just how linguists denote a click.)
Jared Diamond
#72. And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Terry Pratchett
#73. Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. He turned away from me, the better to hide the exclamation of annoyance which he muttered under his breath; I caught only what seemed to be the syllable cog (perhaps a reference to my mechanical trade) and the word succour (a prayer for divine assistance?).
K.W. Jeter
#75. It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
Joey Santiago
#76. All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
Emile M. Cioran
#77. Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
Rachael Ray
#78. Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
Criss Jami
#79. Love the overuse of exclamation points!!!! Yes!!! They add a lot of emphasis!!! to what your character is saying!!!
L.R.W. Lee
#80. An excessive use of exclamation marks is a certain indication of an unpractised writer or of one who wants to add a spurious dash of sensation to something unsensational.
Henry Watson Fowler
#81. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas
a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.
Jodi Picoult
#82. Did you hear that, Bernard?" she said, her hand half over the phone. "They're paying her to sleep now."
I could hear my father's exclamation. "Praise the Lord. She's found her dream career.
Jojo Moyes
#83. She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
Gail Carriger
#84. The blood pumping through her veins when she landed a vault like that one always felt like exclamation points.
Caela Carter
#85. 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
#86. Parvaneh gives him a look studded with a long line of question marks and exclamation marks,
Fredrik Backman
#87. Cut out all these exclamation jokes. An explanation point is like laughing at your own joke. I'm going to delete you from my contacts if you keep sending solely emoji texts. You're a grown-ass man.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. I'm...um...I've got guests in my studio. I don't know how they undid my secure barricade made of cardboard signs that said KEEP OUT! and SECRET ROOM! in all caps with an exclamation point, but it's my program director, Lauren, and some man I've never seen bef - but no, I have seen him before.
Joseph Fink
#90. is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in.
Lynne Truss
#91. Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure
put a period to
those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing ... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
Iyanla Vanzant
#92. Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.
SARK
#93. In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
Lynne Truss
#94. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
Elmore Leonard
#95. A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.
Chelsea Handler
#97. If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
Thomas Jefferson
#98. The kiss wasn't an intrusion; it was a question. Morrigan answered it with an exclamation mark.
P.C. Cast
#99. Men can't use exclamation points in texts... it's weird. We also don't say [stuff] like 'yay'.
Jacinta Howard
#100. Reepicheep: Unhand the tail. Aslan the Great gave me this tail and no one, repeat, no one, touches the tail. Period, exclamation mark!
C.S. Lewis
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