Quotes About Colons

#1. She groaned and closed those eyes. "Do not look at me like that. You will make me smile, and I refuse to smile when I am attempting to stay mad at you.

Jenni James

#2. I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you're along for the ride.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#3. 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

#4. If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.

Lynne Truss

#5. If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Pico Iyer

#6. I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

E.L. Doctorow

#7. The loneliness within him was like slow decay, and with time it would rot its way into his soul.

R.J. Lewis

#8. I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

John Clare

#9. If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.

Paulo Coelho

#10. So now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green ...

John Geddes

#11. I thought about TimeBlaze. We should ... shorten the titles. The titles are getting long. More colons than a proctologist.

D.C. Pierson

#12. My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Adam Grant

#14. Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

E.B. White

#15. Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Neil Gaiman