Top 32 Hyphen Quotes
#1. One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
Winston Churchill
#2. My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma,
Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen.
Question mark, you pregnant?
Oh you're not? I love you, period.
Chino XL
#3. The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
Tim McCarver
#4. Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
Frederick Lenz
#6. In 1962, a typo by a NASA programmer resulted in Mariner 1 being sent into the ocean rather than its intended destination, Venus. The cause was a missed hyphen.
Drummond Moir
#7. A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.
Walter Bagehot
#9. American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
Toni Morrison
#10. I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you."
"Your name?"
"I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N
"
"What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand.
"Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch.
Sophie Kinsella
#11. the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In
John McPhee
#12. When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.
Rex Stout
#13. This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#14. As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation.
June Casagrande
#15. I lost a whole continent.
a whole continent from my memory.
unlike all other hyphenated americans
my hyphen is made of blood.
when africa says hello
my mouth is a heartbreak
because i have nothing in my tongue
to answer her.
i don't know how to say hello to my mother.
Nayyirah Waheed
#16. You realize that everything you think and feel now will be encompassed in the hyphen between two years.
Paige Harbison
#17. Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
Woodrow Wilson
#18. Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of Moby-Dick.
Richard Armour
#19. There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
Laurence J. Peter
#20. Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.
Henry Winter
#21. It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
Frank McCourt
#23. I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
Josh Trank
#24. As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations ... Medical books, were immensely multiplied, ... (towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.
John Wesley
#25. Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.
Wayne Dyer
#26. To whom to speak when the other no longer is?
The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
Edmond Jabes
#27. From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.
Isabel Wilkerson
#28. I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
Jack Nicholson
#29. Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later
Sam Sheridan
#30. Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it
Lee Kuan Yew
#31. I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left.
Joyce Rachelle
#32. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
Mary Norris
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