Punctuation Marks Quotes

#1. I'm petrified. Because being this close to you is doing things to me. Strange things and irrational things and things that flutter against my chest and braid my bones to ether. I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he's forced into my head.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger

#3. Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out.

Marilyn Johnson

#4. Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

Haruki Murakami

#5. ... my private thoughts, feelings I captured with a tortured mind and hammered into sentences I shoved into paragraphs, ideas I pinned together with punctuation marks that serve no function but to determine where one thought ends and another begins.

Tahereh Mafi

#6. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Jean Giraudoux

#8. Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. The eyebrows are the punctuation marks of the face.

Dave Horowitz

#11. If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.

John Humphrys

#12. In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences.

Tasha Alexander

#13. We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

Nick Hornby

#14. Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point (Life of Pi 68).

Yann Martel

#15. Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Lynne Truss

#16. 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

#17. Most managers in the rock n' roll world ... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Jon Anderson

#18. 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

#19. A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

Glenn Reynolds

#20. Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Nicholson Baker

#21. 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

#22. Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

Larry King

#23. The question marks were piling up and I wasn't even ?uestlove yet. But Amir had questions, too, and the fishhook of the punctuation wasn't catching anything, and it wasn't straightening out either.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

Hayden Christensen

#26. There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Aristotle.

#27. 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

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

Gene Weingarten

#29. 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

#30. Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

Arthur Golden

#31. I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Isaac Marion

#32. Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Abbas Kiarostami

#33. The best thrill is standing on stage and playing - other than being married to my wife.

John Tesh

#34. I can make you mine,
taste your lips of wine,
anytime night or day,
only trouble is,
gee wiz,
I'm dreaming my life away...

The Everly Brothers