Punctuate Quotes

#1. The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

Joe Klein

#2. The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

Michel Houellebecq

#3. My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

Andy Kindler

#4. The dying need but little, dear, - A glass of water's all, A flower's unobtrusive face To punctuate the wall, A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret, And certainly that one No color in the rainbow Perceives when you are gone.

Emily Dickinson

#5. Of urgency I was feeling. "Tonight, Zoeybird? I can't wait a few hours until morning?" "Tonight." As if to punctuate my request through the phone, Aphrodite and I heard the chilling sound of a raven's deep, creepy, croaking

P.C. Cast

#6. As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

Christina Hendricks

#7. I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.

Stephanie Klein

#8. 'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.

Robert Gottlieb

#9. It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

Fanny Fern

#10. If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

Saul Williams

#12. I can't help but think that the way we punctuate now is the right way - that we are living in a punctuation renaissance.

Mary Norris

#13. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.

China Mieville

#14. Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#15. why count the buses? probably because they're recognizable and regular:they cut up time, they punctuate the background noise; ultimately, they're foreseeable

Georges Perec

#16. The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but
" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.

Bruce Sterling

#18. Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.

Farshad Asl

#19. You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.

Anne Carson

#20. The glass is completely full...of shit.

Brian Spellman

#21. You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void.

Edouard Leve

#22. My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Julian Fellowes

#23. Antiques and Oriental rugs tell people that my mother may be a dog breeder who dropped out of Bryn Mawr, but she's got power - because she's got money.

E. Lockhart

#24. Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

Joe Henderson

#25. Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

Maureen Johnson

#26. I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

Karen Chance

#27. We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

Susan Cain

#28. With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Bill Gates

#29. Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.

Joyce Meyer

#30. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Sue Monk Kidd

#31. It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Jeremy Rifkin