Punctuation Mark In Quotes

#1. Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Wondering is positive illusion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. This could be addictive.

Kevin Pietersen

#4. That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

Ron Perlman

#5. Hope.
It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

Tahereh Mafi

#6. I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.

Tiger Woods

#7. Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.

John Daishin Buksbazen

#8. Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

Kim Collins

#9. He lives at Balbec? crooned the Baron in a tone so far from interrogatory that it is regrettable that the written language does not possess a sign other than the question mark to end such apparently unquestioning remarks. It is true that such a sign would be of little use except to M. de Charlus.

Marcel Proust

#10. We are a small nation, but strong.

Moshe Dayan

#11. So, have you seen Flood?" she asked. "Cop?" She added "cop" with a high pop on the p, like it was a punctuation mark, not a profession

Christopher Moore

#12. To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

#13. And Englishmen like posing as gods.

E. M. Forster

#14. Insight," he said, "is almost always a rearrangement of fact.

Caroline Knapp

#15. I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#16. 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

#17. It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Bergen Evans

#18. I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

Mario Batali

#19. So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn't meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.

Lene Fogelberg

#21. 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

#22. Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.

John Lennard

#23. 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

#24. Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Eugen Herrigel

#25. Well, for one thing," she said, "her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark.

Melissa Bank

#26. Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Julie Burchill

#27. I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

Gene Weingarten

#28. And for fifty minutes every Tuesday and Thursday, between two o'clock and two fifty, I talk. How I do talk.

Stephen King

#29. Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.

Lawrence Halprin

#30. I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#31. 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

#32. I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

Wynton Marsalis

#33. Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Kurt Vonnegut

#34. It was cool to see reading become such a transparent act - it was as if her face had a different expression for each punctuation mark, and when there was dialogue you could see her actually listening to it in her head.

David Levithan

#35. Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Michael Kennedy